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December 2017

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FIGHTING HIDDEN HUNGER WITH DATA • Flour fortification • There’s too much starch in that bran!

• Brewer’s grains: A sustainable feed for beef and dairy production • Flow measurement Accuracy Vs affordability • JTIC 2017

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FEATURES

46 Scaling up nutrition: Tanzania hits the road 48 Defining flour water absorption with highprecision dosage 54 Addressing pandemic

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micronutrient deficiencies through flour fortification

58 Fighting hidden hunger with data

60 The detection of residual starch in bran

62 Mycotoxin survey

124 People news from the global milling industry

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66 Piglet dysbiosis

68 Brewer’s grains

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72 Fishmeal, fish oil and “The Need for Feed”

78 The Continuous Dryer MkIII 80 Flow measurement

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102 Event listings, reviews and previews

88 Highlighting the importance of hopper tanks and material management

90 Flow controllers & mixing

TRAINING

42 Bringing Egyptians for grain market training

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12 Mildred Cookson 16 Raghavan Sampathkumar 27 Tom Blacker 30 Clifford Spener 36 Chris Jackson

4 GUEST EDITOR Nikunj Khandelwal

96 MARKETS John Buckley

122 INTERVIEW Dr Ali El-Sayed Ali Al-Moselhi

COVER IMAGE: Fighting hidden hunger with data: Deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals such as vitamin A, iron, folic acid, and iodine can have devastating effects. While these nutrients are only needed in very small amounts, they are essential for normal growth and optimal health

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Defining flour water absorption with highprecision dosage

In the literal meaning of “on top”, Brabender now introduces its automated water dosing system for the Farinograph-TS.

PAGE 48 FORTIFICATION

FORTIFICATION Addressing pandemic micronutrient deficiencies through flour fortification

Flour fortification involves adding essential vitamins and minerals to flour as it is milled, which in turn makes foods prepared with fortified flour more nutritious.

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HOPPER TANKS Highlighting the importance of hopper tanks and material management

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Fighting hidden hunger with data

FLOW CONTROL Flow controllers & mixing

In agricultural scopes it is increasingly common to focus on mixing cultivation. In relation to pure seeds there are several advantages, e.g. prevention of massive pests and insect outbreaks, erosion protection, combination of similar sorts for crossings, balancing effects in case of changing weather conditions, efficient usage of nutritive substances or improved stableness during harvest period.

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PROBIOTICS FLOW MEASUREMENT Accuracy Vs affordability

For quite a while now, the choices for solids flow measurement devices for the milling and grain industries have fallen into two main camps

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Taking a closer look at post-weaning piglet dysbiosis

Probiotics may represent a safe opportunity to fight post-weaning dysbiosis and enteric infections in the swine industry

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The Brundtland Commission described sustainability as, “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

PAGE 68 AQUAFEED Fishmeal, fish oil and “The Need for Feed”

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Globalisation to speed up the technology change in India The usual capacities of mills in India are between 100-150 tons per day and few of 300 tons per day or higher and things like silos, bulk loading, automation, sortex in the wheat cleaning section, consistency of the final product due to lack of proper packing sections are things we look forward to

improving here.

Hygiene is another issue for the Indian mills and it needs a close watch as well. But as India is a very big country with different weather zones it will take some time for these changes, but it shall happen over a period of time.

India is improving towards the wholewheat flour systems and many value additions are now being introduced in the same and in fact there is a huge amount of growth in the wholewheat “atta” industry. We are looking for innovations and replacements on the stone mills. But again it will take much time for these changes and India is highly populated and people are not ready to change their eating habits so easily. Many multinational companies from all over the world have entered India and are doing well, hopefully this globalisation will also help to speed up the technology change in India.

At SS Milling, our main focus is not just providing the traditional plants and consultancy services, but to the betterment of the industry, keeping in mind the latest innovations around the world. Specifically looking at the Indian grain industry from the harvesting up to the final product after processing, we believe

there is a lot of scope for improvement, which not only gives us the business opportunity but also helps us to apply our technical expertise.

We are a team of experts qualified from highly reputed schools like the Swiss school of milling, Switzerland and CFTRI Mysore, India are accompanied by engineers from other top engineering colleges.

Together we sit and prepare each and every project carefully in order to make sure our clients reach their targets.

SS milling is providing Turnkey Solutions for grain processing plants and have successfully installed Mills at almost every part of the country. Our Promoter Mr SP Khandelwal (well known as Raju Khandelwal) has been in the field since more than 33 years with clients who are still using our services, which shows the trust, and faith our clients have in us.

Our recent jobs include the latest technology and innovations we do which has helped in reducing the power consumption and increase the yield of high quality products. Keeping in mind all the aspects like the wheat variety, location and the product market we prepare the complete flowsheet and selection of machines accordingly. There are huge amount of points in a plant which must be taken care of in order to achieve the desired results and our focus is to make sure the plant is designed correctly.

At the moment we are based in Noida but as we are growing each year we have made up our mind and will have multiple locations in the coming years.

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Innovation Award

illing and Grain magazine, the oldest milling magazine still in print – and first published in 1891 – is once again holding the GRAPAS Innovation Awards at Victam Asia 2018 from March 27-29, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Award will be made to the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service in the milling of grains and cereals for food production at GRAPAS Asia 2018.

All GRAPAS Innovation Award recipients will be published in an edition of Milling and Grain magazine along with a review of the event itself. This issue will not only reach MAG print readers, but will be promoted widely through the magazine’s social media to ensure maximum awareness of the Award winner within the milling industry globally.

Nominations are being called for from all sectors of food milling and from non-exhibiting and exhibiting companies alike.

A panel of independent industry experts will judge the entries. Their selection will account for 60 percent of the final vote. Delegates attending the one-day GRAPAS Conference on March 27, 2018 and visitors attending Victam Asia Exhibition from March 27-29, 2018 will be able to vote on the Award and their combined vote will account for 40 percent of the final vote. The Award will be announced during Victam Asia 2018.

To submit your entry please complete the application form below prior to 10 January 2018 and submit it by email to the address shown. As the shortlist of nominations will be displayed at Victam Asia 2018 for final voting, please be prepared to supply a small display (details of size and dimensions to be forwarded following application submission) to be set up in the Awards Area at Victam.

The winner will receive a certificate plus a GRAPAS trophy. Runners Up will receive a Certificate of Achievement.

Accepting entries for: • A milling technology development (for flour, rice or other cereal) • A production process or refinement that makes for more efficient and/or safe production of food • A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their goals more efficiently More info: http://bit.ly/GRAPASinnovation 6 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

‘Tis the season to be reflective - Christmas means many things to many people all over the world. It is a time of year where you hope for peace and happiness amongst time honoured traditions.

In Britain, where Milling and Grain is based we have a tradition where we hang a plant called mistletoe around the house and the idea is that two people underneath share a kiss. In ancient times, when enemies met beneath mistletoe in the forest and wooded areas, they had to lay down their weapons and call a truce until the following day. Hence the ritual of hanging clumps and exchanging kisses became a gesture of goodwill toward each other.

I chose mistletoe to discuss because of the roots (excuse the pun) it holds within the agricultural industry over the millennia.

In the poem ‘Aeneid’, the hero brings a bough thought to be mistletoe, which is a symbol of vitality that remains green even in winter, to the underworld. The Druids of the first Century AD believed that “mistletoe, taken in drink, will impart fecundity to animals that are barren”. If you look around you can find quite a few recipes showing you how to include the plant into some Christmassy recipes, be careful though – the plant can be poisonous for any household animals.

This romantic association was later expanded by the Norse myth about Baldur and his mother, Frigga. The goddess of love and marriage, according to legend, got all the plants and animals of the Earth to promise not to harm her son – except mistletoe.

Loki, the god of mischief, took that opportunity to kill her son with a spear made of mistletoe, Frigga’s tears then turned into mistletoe berries and bringing Baldur back to life, thus prompting her to declare it as a symbol of love.

Another agricultural/Christmas anecdote is another British plant of choice, which you’ll see in abundance in the Christmas wreaths hung on people’s doors during the season, and also has agricultural heritage.

The use of Holly has pagan roots, the colourful plant sweetens the air and remains it’s deep green colour throughout the winter, whilst reminding everyone of the coming spring. The plant symbolises eternal life, and was used by the Romans to celebrate and decorate during Saturnalia, a festival dedicated to Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture.

So on the thought that holly is considered to represent eternal life, it is no surprise that it used to honour the god of agriculture, which of course represents something we rely on to provide for our world, at Christmas and throughout the year.

The Milling and Grain family wishes everyone around the world a very happy Christmas and new year, and we will all be looking at the food on our tables and giving a thought to the many incredible industries who all worked together to put it there.

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The future of poultry rearing innovation

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ithin the industry we focus heavily of course on industrial scales of poultry rearing and feeding.

However, even the biggest farms, businesses and livestock counts had to start somewhere, and this particular innovation is exploring rearing chickens from within the home. Exploring on a minute scale different ways of feeding and protecting the livestock, seeing these innovations from their very beginning is promising and interesting to see perhaps the future of our poultry and eggs industries.

Designer of the ‘Chicken Brooder’, Agnieszka Surma described the product as, “A compact set of elements to launch a private poultry breeding.”

She continues, “The brooder consists of several parts with different functions- the main element of the set is a plastic dome with a heating lamp closing a wooden base with a thermostat, which acts as a feeder. An additional part of the set is an outdoor enclosure protected by a mesh.”

As an interesting other use of the product she explains, “When the chickens are already reared, the product gets a second life.

The plastic dome turns into a hanging lamp, the enclosure can serve as a container, and the wooden base can act as a low table.”

Finally she points out that, “The dome with the enclosure and items of equipment of the feeder are made of polystyrene. The base connected to the dome and enclosure legs are built of solid wood.”

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Milling science student awarded the Mennel Milling Company Scholarship ansas State University (KSU) Milling Science and Management student, Nolan Brennan, Bowling Green, Ohio, was awarded the Mennel Milling Company Scholarship.

The scholarship’s purpose is to provide financial assistance to full-time students enrolled in the Milling Science and Management curriculum at KSU. The scholarship allows non-Kansas students to attend the university at in-state tuition costs.

Mr Brennen commented, “I was fortunate to have Mennel offer me the opportunity to work with them in the mill several times a week through my senior year of high school. I have truly been blessed receiving this scholarship. This generous donation has driven me to pursue this career with a tremendous amount of weight off my shoulders, which helps me to focus more on school.”

Mr Brennan says that through the generosity of Mennel Milling

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Nolan Brennen, freshman, stands outside of Shellenberger Hall, the primary building for the Department of Grain Sciences and Industry.

Nolan Brennen at Mennel Milling Company during the 2017 summer.

Company and the friendly staff that stand behind it, he has chosen his first summer internship working with Mennel for the summer of 2018.

The scholarship was established in 2010. Funds provided are to cover US$10,000 of out of state tuition, and an extra US$1,000 for travel costs.

The scholarship is awarded to one student from: Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana or Virginia. Each student who receives the award is eligible for its renewal the following year.

John Faubion, KSU Professor of Bakery Science and Chair of the Grain Science Scholorship Committee remarked, “Scholarships, particularly of the scale pledged by Mennel Milling, are an important component of our recruitment and retention efforts.”

He continued, “Mennel, and in particular Ford Mennel, have the gratitude of our faculty and our students for their forward thinking generosity.”

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Vortex wins MHEA excellence award

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ortex Global Limited, a solids and bulk handling components company, has been recognised with the Materials Handling Engineers’ Association (MHEA) Excellence Award for Supplier of the Year.

The MHEA Excellence Award for Supplier of the Year is intended to recognise companies who have made a significant impact on customer successes through outstanding customer service, robust product offerings, excellent product quality, or have exceeded expectations in the bulk materials handling industry.

Vortex was nominated by LeBlansch Bulkhandling Equipment B.V. for their excellent collaboration during a recent project for PPG Industries Chemicals.

Reflecting on the project, Jan Le Blansch, owner of LeBlansch Bulk Handling Equipment BV, said, “Vortex has always strived to offer the correct equipment for even the most challenging applications put forward – while at the same time, continuing to provide quality components of a high standard. We have been working on projects with Vortex Global Limited for many, many years, and it is always a pleasure to stay in contact with the Vortex team.”

The award was presented on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at MHEA’s second annual Excellence Awards Ceremony & Dinner, hosted in Nottingham, UK, at Eastwood Hall.

Vortex Global Limited accepting the 2017 MHEA Excellence Award for Supplier of the Year. Pictured (L to R): Laurence Millington, managing director, Vortex Global Limited; Ashley Maxwell, sales manager – UK & Ireland, Vortex Global Limited; John Connolly, MHEA president & managing director of Kingfisher Industrial.

Laurence Millington, Managing Director at Vortex Global Limited, commented, “Vortex is proud to receive this award because it recognises our increased presence and success in international bulk handling markets. It is always a pleasure to work with our international sales groups, such as LeBlansch, on challenging engineered projects. In doing so, we expand our knowledge on the different types of conveying applications, and what equipment is necessary to approach them.”

He concludes, “MHEA is a staunch supporter of UK and overseas companies such as ours, and we enjoy working with likeminded people to advance the knowledge base for bulk handling industries.”

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The British engineering works of William Gardner and Sons Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK A year ago in Milling and Grain I featured William Gardner of Gloucester in a brief review of 10 succesful milling engineers with works in the UK. I have now found that The Miller (5 August 1895) provides a detailed account of this highly regarded firm, well known in Gloucester and the West of England since the 1870s. The firm underwent several moves since it was founded around 1860, culminating in new premises in Bristol Road, completed when the plant was installed in June 1894. Once established there Mr. Gardner took into partnership his sons, Charles and Alfred, styling the firm as William Gardner and Sons.

The ground floor offices accommodated a little room in which a telephone was installed so Mr. Gardner could take a call immediately from a client “in any part of the kingdom” as well as a strong room with an iron door for holding valuable papers which “would withstand a charge of dynamite”! Charles Gardner, as general manager of the works could see, through a glass window, the whole length of the fitting and turning shop,

Showroom for finished machines

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which ran longitudinally to the offices.

There was also a room near the offices for storing large quantities of Dufour’s silks in presses, so arranged that any particular number or quality could be taken out immediately.

There was a storeroom for mill furnishings, with a large stock of hoist chains, brooms, sack trucks, bolts, butts and brasses as well as all kinds of lubricators.

The fitting shop was supported on two rows of iron columns carrying a line of shafting and held all kinds of machines being made ready for work. At the time of the report, there was a large power friction hoist, a large elevator bottom, and a gigantic patent Rapid mixer with a capacity of half a ton on view.

Roller mills were evident in all stages of completion as well as centrifugals and ordinary reels, rotary scalpers etc. There was a fine lathe capable of turning 20 feet of shafting and of boring out large wheels. An overhead crane served the whole length of the shop.

Gardner devoted much time and attention to the grinding and grooving of their rollers in a separate department furnished with the latest design of grinding and grooving machines. Rolls were sent from all parts of England and Ireland to be grooved, where

“Rapid” sifting and mixing machinery department

any spiral or shape, or number of corrugations could be readily matched. On the opposite side to the erecting shop were double roll grooving and grinding machines, both served by travelling cranes.

These were of the horizontal pattern and fitted with automatic reversing gear. Close by the engine house was a smithy with power driven forges capable of heating iron and steel goods of any size.

Outside the fitting shop a large yard held a shed containing a wide selection of iron bars and in another, planks of raw wood were dried. Particular attention was paid to cog gearing timbers such as hornbeam, crab tree etc of which they held enormous stocks.

Another shed contained pulleys, hangers, power possers and worms etc.

The millstone department stood by itself. One shed contained a line of hurstings, another a collection of rough stones ready for millstone building, with the finished stones stored separately.

Although the millstone had seen its day in flour milling, there were yet many industries in which grinding stones of different patterns and diameters were used and Gardner did a fair trade in these.

The firm’s work with smaller mills featured in their advertising and is nicely illustrated with a tender from July 1894 in one of the Mills Archive collections offering the miller new equipment that would “make you a very pretty mill”.

The upper floor held a fine showroom filled with finished machines ready to leave the works. A line of Gardner’s well-known roller mills made an excellent impression.

These mills were of different sizes, fitted with rollers of different diameters, varying between six, seven and nine inches. The length of these rolls varied from 12 to 30 inches. The usual type of double roller mill made in these works was fitted with two feed rolls, and had a division in the hopperings so could be used, if desired, on two different classes of material at the same time, more or less

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For well over 100 years milling technology has been global with many magazines serving or having served our industry from flour and food to feed and oilseed processing and now to fish feeds.

A most recent contribution to the Trust’s collection is a complete century of past edition of the now out-of-print ‘NorthWestern Miller’ from the United States.

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There was also a sensitive automatic feed that had a very simple design. At any moment the feed itself could be cut off without any alteration of the feed adjustments, by merely throwing out of gear a small clutch, the handle of which was conveniently placed by the side of the feed roll driving pulley.

The two pairs of rolls would be thrown apart at one time by a lever attached to a double eccentric at the side of the mill, and returned to their original position without altering any of the roll adjustments.

The cast iron frames in which the mills were fitted were very rigid, and at each side of the case filleted pieces were arranged so that whenever necessary, the rolls could be easily and quickly changed, without removing the hopper. All the adjustments were outside the frame; the arrangement rendering it easier to take the mill to pieces whenever that operation appeared advisable.

There was a special room used as a store for Gardner’s patent “Rapid” sifters and mixers, containing all sizes from a small seven-pound machine to a half-tonne mixer. The hoppers were not constructed from thin strips of wood as many other machines were, but of a single piece of wood.

A machine in the testing area was being shown as singularly effective in dealing with canary and linseed. It was fitted with a dickey sieve, and combined sieving with a reduction action for large lumps of dirt, aspirated by a powerful fan.

Throughout the buildings a tramway system was used in addition to the travelling cranes, underlining the labour saving principles, which the business emphasised.

The geographical and historical spread of our holdings at the Mills Archive mean that I can only provide snapshots; if you would like to know more please email me at mills@millsarchive.org.

Covering letter for tender by W Gardner to install a roller mill system

Bird’s-eye view of Gardner’s new flourmill engineering works, Gloucester

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The Raghavan Report Safe and quality food: A shared responsibility – A need for training and capacity building

by Raghavan (‘Ragha’) Sampathkumar Continuing from my last column, there are several areas where food chain stakeholders must join hands and invest to ensure food that reaches the consumer is safe and is of good quality at affordable prices.

When looking at the Asian region, there are at least 600 million farmers and the majority are smallholders. In most countries, these smallholders neither have the knowledge and financial capacity individually to access domestic or export markets nor have any formalised institutional system to support them in terms of providing knowledge on best practices, technological know-how and most importantly, finance.

These farmers are staring blankly at the fast growing food industry in Asia that is struggling to source good quality raw materials and agricultural produce. This situation is common across all commodities and needs concerted efforts by all stakeholders, this is essential to benefit both ends of the food chain – farmers and consumers.

Some of the most critical aspects that require immediate attention are: safety (e.g. free from contamination); residue-free (e.g. chemicals, heavy metals etc.); and improved shelf life particularly for perishables. At one point of time, secondary standards were absolutely necessary to gain consumers’ confidence and as a result, premium prices.

But with mushrooming of several such standards since the last decade, consumers are increasingly becoming confused. Regulatory agencies worldwide are becoming more cognizant of these kinds of multiple third-party certifications and sooner or later, these certifications and labels may also get scrutinised strictly.

At least a few major food industry players have already started their own means of assuring their customers and consumers of their good quality and compliance to sustainability commitments instead of the third-party certifications. It must be noted that such an effort strongly turns the emphasis onto improving their supply chain, which may even surpass the third-party standards.

However, this is only a beginning of yet another phenomenon to win consumers’ trust.

Whatever may be the means to reassure the consumer of quality, it is important to build capacity within their respective supply chains and those efforts must reach to the last mile.

Farmers must be at the core of these efforts wherein several companies can join hands on what is termed as “Pre-competitive partnerships”. Farmers must be trained on responsible use of inputs. For example, training on responsible use of chemicals for agriculturists and judicious use of antibiotics for the livestock farmers are absolutely critical to ensure sustainable production of quality and safe food.

With economic progress, consumers’ preferences are evolving faster than the previous generations and they are becoming ever more demanding on issues such as animal welfare, environmental sustainability, human rights and resource efficiency. Their purchase decisions are increasingly getting influenced by the level of compliance to and/or exceeding the standards on these aspects.

Hence, sectors such as fresh produce and poultry in Europe and aquaculture and fisheries in South East Asia are already under the scanner for any non-compliance and aberrations on the above parameters. Several major players including Unilever and Cargill are moving in the direction of voluntarily improving their practices and ensuring these critical aspects are addressed.

Raghavan Sampathkumar is a food and agribusiness leader with a 360 degree understanding of the complex Geo Political, Environmental, Socio Economic, Techno Commercial and Cultural perspectives of Agri Food value chain. He worked in various subsectors including agro inputs, international trade, biotech, and animal nutrition across Asia-Pacific and currently he is with Compound Livestock Feed Manufactures Association (CLFMA) of India as its Executive Director. He regularly writes for international publications on agri-food trends, food security and sustainability themes. Also, he pens his poems and thoughts in his personal blog - www.asmalltownkid.wordpress.com.

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Offering new online baking collection

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s the baking industry’s skill workforce approaches retirement age, a new era of tech savvy employees will be needed to fill the gaps.

AIB International is proud to announce new solutions in its online programming options.

Since 1919, AIB has put the latest in baking skills and training in the hands of industry leaders. Now, in conjunction with the Certified Break Specialist career path launched in 2016, AUB’s new Baking Specialist Online Collection offers a variety of online courses geared toward enhancing knowledge of ingredient functions and baking steps. The current collection of courses include several breadbased courses in manufacturing, quality, ingredients, troubleshooting as well as specialised courses for variety breads, buns, and tortillas.

According to John Khoury, AIB International’s Global Category Director for Bakery and Technical Services, this collection allows industry professionals to curate their own education based on their needs and the needs of their employer.

He commented, “The Baking Specialist Online Collection is one of the best offerings at AIB. I have personally taken each of these and they are well designed and loaded with technical information crafted for up and coming bakers.”

Students will gain valuable tools in artisan-level bread training, specialty grain ingredients, and the characteristics and production techniques behind exceptional tortillas and hamburger buns.

By making these courses available in an as-needed format, AIB puts the industryboosting power back in the hands of the individuals and employers themselves.

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‘Strong support’ announced for urgent action in Brazil’s Cerrado

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t a high level summit in London recently, the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) announced its strong support for a newly published manifesto calling for an end to the destruction of forests and native vegetation in the Cerrado region of Brazil.

In a statement endorsed by its executive board, RTRS has said that it endorses the Cerrado Manifesto, which has been drawn up by more than sixty Brazil-based organisations.

The Manifesto calls on companies and investors to take urgent action to ensure that their soy and beef supply chains are making no contribution whatsoever to deforestation and the conversion of natural areas to agriculture. The Cerrado is considered one of the great natural areas of the world but has already seen half of its original area destroyed.

The area holds around five percent of the world’s biodiversity and of the Cerrado’s more than 11,000 plant species, almost half are found nowhere else on Earth.

It also stores the equivalent of 13.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2). As an organisation already working with more than 32,000 soy producers as well as many wellknown global food and agriculture brands, RTRS will be a key route in delivering the Manifesto commitments and is a viable global standard by which soy can be certified as being truly deforestation-free and not contributing to the

conversion of natural vegetation.

According to RTRS president Marina B. de Engels, the key is achieving collaborative partnerships with local soy producers, “The global production of soy cannot harm the world’s biodiversity, that is our starting point. Supporting growers and the wider soy supply chain to produce responsible soy to a zero deforestation standard that can be trusted, is the key.”

A recent innovation from RTRS has been the approval of its new Standard for Responsible Soy Production. This third version of RTRS’s standard was agreed in June 2016 and set the global standard for sustainable soy, promoting zero deforestation and conversion as well as more progressive labour and community relations.

As well as being a global, multi-stakeholder roundtable RTRS also is a key player in certifying that soy production can be trusted as being responsible.

In 2016, RTRS certified production grew by 29 percent against 2015 and more than 32,000 producers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Paraguay, Uruguay and the US, together produced more than three million tons of RTRS-certified soy. Most of this soy was sold in the European marketplace.

And according to RTRS Executive-Director, Marcelo Visconti, RTRS is the standard that can deliver, at scale, the change needed to protect the Cerrado, “This is a global challenge involving future generations. International commitments from the private sector, the government, the civil society and the community all call for renewed action and long term, sustainable solutions.”

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Technology centre opens in Lagos

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ühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG has now opened its first technology centre in Africa. In Lagos, Nigeria’s industrial heartland, the specialist for flour improvement and fortification now operates a baking laboratory. Having development capabilities on the spot will enable the firm to meet local millers’ needs more rapidly and efficiently.

55 guests from the Nigerian milling industry went along to gain a personal impression of the technical equipment at the Technology Center and attend the official opening ceremony. The core element of the facility is a trial bakery modelled on Mühlenchemie’s central Technology Center in Germany.

Developers at the new facility can customise systems for improving, standardising and fortifying flour and tailor them to local conditions. The facility was planned and built in close cooperation with Vitachem Nigeria Ltd., which has been a business partner of Mühlenchemie for many years. The new manager is Mr Emenike Okoye, who has more than 20 years of experience of quality assurance in the Nigerian milling industry.

Lennart Kutschinski, managing director, Mühlenchemie said at the opening, “Thanks to a combination of our comprehensive production capacity in Germany and local development know-how we will, in future, be able to supply the Nigerian milling industry with customised systems faster than before.”

In Africa’s most densely populated country the milling industry faces a huge challenge. Increasing numbers of people need good quality food at reasonable prices. Due to the volatility of the markets for raw materials, the manufacturers of flours face an ever more demanding task. Because markets across the globe are merging, varying qualities of grain need to be processed in evershorter cycles.

Mr Kutschinski continued, “The Nigerian millers are already familiar with Tom Runge, the area sales manager, and his presence at the new facility in the country puts us in closer contact with our customers.

Together we will be working to produce applications that ensure consistently high standards for flour and provide a more rapid response to emerging trends.”

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Onboard agricultural trailer weighing riffith Elder has been working in partnership with AW Trailers in order to create the ideal on-board weighing system for agricultural trailers. This system has become a favourable option with agricultural contractors as it is fitted to the trailer; therefore it eliminates the need to stop at a public weighbridge. This can be time consuming and a logistical nightmare.

Thomas Robinson of Robinson Agricultural Services in Devon, has had an on-board weighing system fitted to his AW trailer for over a year, utilising it throughout the agricultural calendar; transporting grain, grass

silage and chicken manure. They operate from Devon right up through to Salisbury plain in Wiltshire; therefore they required a weighing system that was portable, time efficient and as practical as possible.

Mr Robinsons’ favourable features of the system are that it is robust and withstands the day to day of farm life. The diversity of each farm task requires a system that is user-friendly and easy to transfer between differing tractor-trailer combinations.

The in-cab indicator is a compact electronic device, which continually displays the true-live weight, meaning that there are no errors in weight changes of the trailer loads due to moisture loss

and gain throughout the day.

The on-board weighing system has the optional extra of a totalising indicator, which allows the operator to save individual weights for a batch total. This will display the number of loads a driver has completed and the weight of each load, it will also enable the driver to see the total weight transported at the end of the day. A printer can also be added to the system, allowing for ticket records to be printed off.

The Griffith Elder kits are highly versatile and can be fitted with other trailer manufacturers as well, just request Griffith Elder when you order.

The systems can also be retrofitted and you can contact them for more information.

The durability of the system means that adverse weather and long transport periods won’t affect the accuracy of the weight capture, giving piece of mind to the operator.

Mr Robinson’s response to the performance of the system was that he, “wouldn’t buy a trailer without the Griffith Elder kit, because of how important and efficient it was for agricultural contracting.”

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Joining forces to create leading natural animal health and nutrition

C A thankful end to the year Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory Hello. Welcome to my final column of the year.

Generally, 2017 has been an especially exciting year of changes for us — reformatting the directory’s products and services, renewing all members with a special strategy for refreshing the directory. I am ever thankful to the Directory’s own members who have grown this directory and remained with it well, so many constantly over the 26 years.

In the past month, 12 new companies have registered which has been very good response to the end of our promotion to register in time for the 2018 print edition. As always the 2018 print edition will contain the companies registered now and thoughout 2017.

In the industry, there has been a lot more consolidation across all areas and in all regions. The grain handling industry’s projects seem to grow ever larger and more ambitious in more regions of the world. One interesting highlight for me was definitely the re-launch of Henry Simon. Looking forward, we are keen to keep close to the grain industries and fulfill its unique needs.

Some things remain constant and our distribution of the 2017 print edition at events has concluded with visits to IAOM MEA in Dubai, JTIC in France and Agritechnica in Germany. These events were all super for bringing the operators, innovations and suppliers together.

With the rest of the team attending events in The Netherlands, China, Mexico and Turkey, this was a very productive month globally for the directory indeed. Its exposure is astounding even to me even after five years.

The International Milling and Grain Directory’s 2018 print edition alone will be read by over 45,000 Feed, Flour, Rice and Semolina Millers in 2018, spanning across 140 different countries. That is on top of the growing digital readership which receives over 4,000 hits per month to the website and has over 1,500 followers on Twitter.

As always, please contact me for any reason for the Directory, follow us on social media or meet me at an industry event. @intlmilling facebook.com/internationalmillingdirectory

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argill announced it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Diamond V, a leading global provider of innovative natural solutions and technologies that improve animal health, animal performance, and food safety.

This acquisition, which follows Cargill’s recent investment in Delacon, the global leader in natural, plant-based phytogenic additives, will give Cargill market-leading participation in the US$20 billion global animal feed additives market, as well as world-class technical, regulatory and R&D capabilities and go-to-market strength in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

David MacLennan, Cargill’s chairman and chief executive officer commented, “This acquisition strengthens Cargill’s and Diamond V’s shared vision to be a leader in creating new solutions for evolving consumer preferences for sustainable and wholesome food production. Our combined businesses will accelerate growth, build industryleading capabilities and natural solutions for animal health and food safety, and help fulfill Cargill’s purpose to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.”

Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Diamond V has a 75-year history and global reputation for developing unique, research-proven immune support technologies that work naturally with the biology of the animal to strengthen the immune system and promote a healthy digestive system to enhance animal health, animal performance, and food safety.

The purchase will encompass all of Diamond V’s business, including the human health business, Embria Health Sciences, and its branded product EpiCor®. Diamond V’s headquarters will remain in Cedar Rapids and the Diamond V brand will be the platform for future investments in natural solutions for safer animal food production.

Jeff Cannon, Diamond V president and CEO remarked, “ I am excited about what Diamond V and Cargill can accomplish together. This acquisition is an investment in the well-being of animals — and ultimately, in people.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The transaction is expected to close in January 2018, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.

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New milling facility for high quality basmati rice production

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n September 17, 2017, Satake India Engineering Pvt., Ltd. (SIE), subsidary of Satake Corporation completed the installation of an eight tonne per hour high quality rice milling facility for M/s.

Daawat Foods in Rotterdam, Kingdom of The Netherlands.

SIE designed and supplied equipment from the receiving to packaging sections as well as accessories, plant pneumatics and a plant automation system to meet or exceed the EU standards.

Satake Corporation was founded in 1896 as the first motorised rice milling machine manufacturer in Japan. With its business expansion to over 150 countries worldwide they are a leading company in grain processing systems. Their products range from rice milling machinery, flour milling machinery, biomass gasification system, and microbial analysers for ballast water, to packaged rice for the food industry.

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Supporting “A Trucker’s Thanksgiving”

his Thanksgiving, Sukup Manufacturing Co. will contribute to a meal for truck drivers who are working on Thanksgiving Day. “A Trucker’s Thanksgiving” will be held, free of charge, at the Pilot Travel Center in Clear Lake. The Center anticipates nearly 60 truck drivers will enjoy a buffet meal with turkey, ham, and traditional Thanksgiving side

dishes. Two local Perkins restaurants will donate pie for the meal.

Andy Schmitt, Sukup Manufacturing Supply Chain Manager commented, “The men and women who support logistical operations as truck drivers are critical to the manufacturing process.

We recognise that they spend long hours on the road, often times away from family and loved ones, and we

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hope that this meal will serve as a thank you and acknowledgement of the important work they do for companies like Sukup.”

Sue Rother, Fleet Manager, Sukup, added, “The company has been intentional about supporting the truckers who work here. Our distribution centers are strategically located to allow truckers to be home with family at night whenever possible, and Sukup truckers receive the same excellent benefits that all company employees receive. These benefits include 401K, profit sharing, paid holidays, 100 percent employerpaid healthcare premiums for individuals, and access to the new onsite health clinic opening in January.

We also invest heavily in their equipment to make sure they have the tools they need to adequately do their work. Supporting our truck drivers is very much part of the culture at Sukup!”

The buffet will be available from 1200-1500 hours on Thanksgiving Day. Pilot Travel Center is located at 2411 US Highway 18 East in Clear Lake, Iowa. The truck drivers who participate in the meal will also have the opportunity to give a free will donation to support a local community organisation.

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The history of the earth and the soil Clifford Spencer, Goodwill Ambassador, NEPAD and Chairman, Milling4Life Milling is important to developing countries because grains in their raw whole form cannot be properly digested by humans, grains need grinding, cracking, flaking, popping or puffing before eating.

Of course looking at a whole grain in your hand it gives all the appearance of being dead or inert, whereas the exact opposite is the truth. A study under the microscope reveals the intricate composition of a grain as a living thing with intricate in-built survival mechanisms.

A grain has evolved to survive the seasons so it can germinate and grow again to continue its species. Indeed I spent the early part of my farming career trying to variously overcome this built in survival system and capacity of grains so as to encourage them to germinate and grow at their earliest opportunity. I soon learnt there were significant differences between the various grains and with that a whole bag (pardon the pun) of agronomic tricks to coax them out of their slumber whilst in the bin in which they were stored. This was achieved through a series of temperature changes, movement and even seed treatments.

Also when and how the seeds were planted in the soil, the soil type, aspect of the field with regard to sunlight and shade and other factors were all important parameters to consider and manipulate. Even the way in which these seeds were planted made a difference to their emergence and survival and indeed their subsequent vigour and emergence and thus the harvested yield and quality of the crop they ultimately produced.

Grains are the result of a super-efficient process that involves transforming sunlight, nutrients, water and air into macronutrients. Humans as farmers commenced growing grains for food in an organised fashion around 15,000 years ago. So in mankind’s history and evolution then intentionally growing grain is actually a very new way of supplying food for sustenance. It is hard to absorb that fact when grains are now such a huge global industry, being both a staple part of the Western diet and an important industrial feedstock.

Indeed, grains were originally used principally in the winter months, by humans to provide food when fresh food was difficult to find. As a result humans began to settle in areas where grain could be grown. To further complicate the story there is a school of thought that postulates our bodies and alimentary tract may not have evolved in the preceding 30 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

hundreds of thousands of years to this very new agricultural era in historical terms, in order to digest grains effectively.

At the time of the industrial revolution it was discovered that whole grains go rancid faster than processed grains due to their fat content. Indeed milling and separating the germ (that I spent my youth trying to trick) and with it the bran prevents subsequent spoilage of the quality and lifespan of constituents of the grain and its subsequent food (and industrial) products.

In the decade preceding World War Two it was discovered that refined grains were nutrient deficient and as a result harming health particularly in the young where nutrient intake was vital to healthy growth. This led to the fortification of grain products, which involved putting back into grain those valuable nutrients that were lost when it was initially processed to improve its keeping quality.

In many developing countries efficient and bountiful grain production is lacking, as is the vital subsequent safe storage, drying and processing facilities essential to its success.

Indeed it is the objective of this charity to make a contribution to improving this position and alleviating the disadvantaged position of the many millions of people affected by this unacceptable position in a modern world. As a result grain and the intake of this calorie rich and dense food in the various developing populations is severely lacking. People who eat enough properly processed and prepared whole grains to maintain fibre and resistant starch and remove anti-nutrients in particular enjoy improved health and development and have sufficient energy for essential daily activity.

So as we settle down for a bountiful Christmas time enjoying good food and the company of our families and friends remember we all enjoy the benefit of a secure and stable food supply. As a result please consider donating a little contribution of the money that good cheer costs in the pursuit of helping the millions of people who want to have a similar secure food supply, and in particular milled nutrient and energy rich grains.

Please go to our website at www.milling4life.co.uk and donate as sparingly as you are able. We, the Milling4life trustees will in turn ensure your donation to this charity is put to very good use in providing real practical assistance on the ground in developing countries in the provision of milling and storage facilities to those most in need and to the betterment of deserving peoples, their families and close ones.

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Probiotic yeast improves piglets performance postweaning

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esults of a study focused on weaning piglets conducted by the team of Professor G. Savoini from University of Milan, Italy, were presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), in Tallinn, Estonia.

This trial shows that probiotic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 can help facing post-weaning challenges, either to enhance performance when used on top of medicated feed (antibiotics and zinc oxide), or to help reducing feed medication post-weaning.

The authors concluded that this probiotic can become part of the nutritional strategies in a context of medicated feed reduction and that it is compatible with antibiotics and zinc oxide.

Professor Savoini commented, “This is quite a good example of how a probiotic should work, giving economic advantages to the farmers through increased animal performance and possible decreased cost of rearing cycles from lower use of medications in feeds”.

Weaning is one of the most stressful events in pig farming and it does represent a critical step, which must be well managed in order to minimise production losses and secure piglets’ health. The wide use of antibiotics in both human and animal medicine has fueled the appearance and propagation of resistant microorganisms.

Thus, producers are looking to find alternative approaches. Among them, the use of probiotics appears as a solution. The live yeast strain S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 is one of the most documented probiotics in swine, with proven effects on microbiota regulation, intestinal structure and natural defenses.

The University of Milan conducted this study on 288 weaning piglets in order to evaluate the effect of the probiotic yeast on post-weaning piglets performance, either in addition to or in substitution of antimicrobials in feed, in a 3-phase feeding programme.

Results An additive effect of the probiotic and antimicrobials - when S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 was used on top of medicated feed, this trial showed a significantly improved average daily gain and improved feed conversion ratio: +5.59 percent in ADG and -4.97 percent in FCR. The probiotic is compatible with antibiotics and zinc oxide.

A substitution effect - when S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 is used and antimicrobials (antibiotic and zinc oxide) were removed for 39 days (Phase 2 and 3 feed), there was no significant difference in average daily gain and feed conversion ratio.

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On-site health clinic opened in Iowa ukup Manufacturing Co. announced that it would open an on-site health clinic for all employees at its Sheffield, Iowa, headquarters. The company plans to make some clinic services available to families of employees in the future as

well.

The clinic will include five exam rooms, two offices, and one lab, and a registered nurse and nurse practioner from Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa will staff the clinic. Sukup employees will have access to a variety of health services including biometric screening, health coaching, weight loss coaching, smoking cessation, tele counseling, and other routine clinical tests such as for strep throat.

“Research shows that onsite clinics can add significant value to the workplace,” said Sukup Manufacturing Human Resources representative Samantha Petersburg. “Some benefits the company hopes to realise are earlier detection and treatment of illness, fewer emergency room visits, and reinforcing a culture of wellness here at Sukup.”

In addition to the health clinic, Sukup Manufacturing promotes wellness as part of its company culture by providing employee single health care premiums for USD$0, providing fruit to all employees every Wednesday, and will take 160 long-term employees and spouses to Hawaii in January 2018.

Employees may make appointments at the clinic beginning in January 2018.

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The importance of not taking our food for granted

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG Back here in the UK our Christmas festivities are about to start and we look forward to another New Year.

As the seasons and years march on, in this ever changing and adapting world, farming and food production remain a constant necessity, something that whenever I can, I remind politicians of. I think at times they lose sight of mankind’s need for food, as they mostly are so very far divorced from the realities of food production.

In our modern, urban, developed world, food is taken for granted; not so much in our less developed countries where wars and natural disasters cause mass famine and starvation. This should be unacceptable in today’s world.

Natural disasters fire, flood and drought we can do little about, but the continual warring is totally man made and therefore avoidable.

Farming and food production should be a concern of all thinking political leaders.

Within our global industry, we are becoming more and more efficient at producing an increasing amount of food - in very innovative ways using high technology and science to aid us.

Quantity of production is paramount, and unless you can find very lucrative high return niche markets, then yield is the key driver to farmer’s profitability.

As most of the worlds consumers want food as cheaply as possible this adds even more pressure to the farmers, who now in the western world are driven to production systems that for livestock are welfare friendly, this means added cost to production and in some instances lower outputs. In addition, all farmers’ crops, vegetables and stock, have to look at production methods that do not have damaging effects on our environment.

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only for themselves but for their families who will follow them. This is not always the case for the industrial conglomerates who see farming as a short-term income stream.

For livestock production we hear much about the routine use of antibiotics and growth promoters to aid in production.

Here of course in the UK these artificial aids have been banned for many years, so we lead the world, however this enlightened approach has not been adopted worldwide, so that we now hear more and more about antimicrobial resistance.

Genetics and better management with different feed formulation are playing an important part in maintaining farm production. For crop production the ever increasing use of chemicals to control disease and weeds that have residual consequences both in the soil and in crops are now very much scrutinised and rightly so. The use of technology that people of my era would not have dreamed possible are all helping, for instance field sprayers that only put chemical on the weeds instead of the whole field are now in use.

Highly sensitive irrigation controls saving water are now being widely used, so all of this technology means that the few farmers that there are to produce our food need to be very well trained and educated to a very high standard. Farming is now a high-tech industry and needs to be recognised as such to encourage our young people to either stay on the farms, or join an industry that is needed and must be appreciated.

Let us hope that as we move to another year, our worlds farmers can continue to meet the challenges and that when their crops are ready then the infrastructure is in place to effectively distribute for them to the points of consumption. I am looking forward to the challenges of a new year with enthusiasm.

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Next instruments win ‘2017 Premier’s NSW Agribusiness Export Award’

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he Export Council of Australia (ECA) is please to recognise the Export Award winners announced at one of Sydney’s most prestigious presentation events.

Next Instruments Pty Ltd, a manufacturer of scientific instruments for the agriculture and food industries was awarded the Agribusiness Exporters Award. Next Instruments has been exporting its products throughout the world for more than 18 years. With 42

dealers around the world, Next Instruments has shipped instruments to countries as far afield as Bulgaria, Japan, China, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Latvia and more in recent years.

Next Instruments has an office in Mumbai, India and Rome, Italy in order to service the sub continent and Europe. Next year the company plans to open an office in North America.

Premier’s NSW Export Awards The Awards recognise New South Wales companies for their contribution to the state and national economy. As a leading advocate for international trade, the ECA, in conjunction with the NSW Government is honoured to manage this statewide competition where nominees secure their reputation on the world stage.

More than 85 applicants vied for one of 12 industry specific categories and eight state-based awards that recognise emerging exporters, leadership, innovation, and above all else export excellence.

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Milling News Bühler’s SORTEX optical sorting equipment cannot only distinguish between common seed varieties, but also difficult-to-sort products. For example, SORTEX technology can detect and remove: broken seeds; different shapes of marigold seeds; dark pumpkin seeds; slight colour variations between amaranth and sorghum; sticks the same colour as garlic flakes; ergot from rye; as well as foreign materials such as glass, wood, plastic, metal, sticks, stones and soil.

Since the installation, Weber has diversified its business, to sort more than 50 different product types, including exotic herbs and spices. They also upgraded to a quick chute-change system, so they could easily swap between the flat, 32 and 64 channel chutes, to suit the product being sorted.

The channelled chutes are designed for products that are prone to bouncing and rolling, as they help control and separate them for the best camera view.

Weber recently attended advanced training with Bühler’s technology specialists.

Emanuel Weber commented, “Even though we already use many of the Wedding dress initiates successful expansion sorter’s pre-programmed modes to n Austrian seed specialist, experimented with different fabrics to process our products, we wanted to Weber, has improved the see if he could “sieve” the seeds. After ensure that we could fully utilise the purity and yield of more testing various textiles, he ingeniously highly flexible sorting possibilities. We than 50 products with the discovered that oat grass seeds stuck are now confident that, if required, we use of Bühler’s SORTEX optical sorting to the petticoat fabric of his wife’s can fine-tune pre-set modes or set up technologies. wedding dress, while foreign seeds additional modes to run new products The technology has enabled the fifthsimply fell away. Weber’s very first with unique applications.” generation, small family business to sorting machine was based on Mrs This capability is pivotal to Weber expand and diversify. Seed specialist Weber’s wedding dress! being able to diversify Weber is using Bühler’s PROfile shape, Weber went on to the product range sorted An Austrian seed colour and InGaAs technologies to sort employ several types and drive its business specialist, Weber, has a wide variety of agri and edible seeds, of mechanical sorters into many different areas improved the purity as well as superfoods, such as quinoa to sort not only seeds – serving customers and yield of more than ranging from small and white poppy seeds. but also a selection of 50 products The Weber family has farmed spices, pulses and grains. farmers through to agriland in Mühlviertel, Upper Austria, However, these machines seed processors, spice for more than 300 years and today were limited to very basic sorting and not traders and mixers and seed trading four generations live together in a sophisticated enough to distinguish the companies.

Vierkanthof – a traditional style of minute size and weight differences between Johann Hoegler, Sales Engineer at farmhouse specific to the region. product varieties, or colour variations. So, Bühler adds that the sheer complexity In 2000, Franz Weber decided to for instance, they were unable to remove of Weber Seeds’ operations posed a branch out from dairy farming, when grass seeds and sclerotia from cumin, ergot difficult challenge, but one that Bühler he saw there might be a profitable from rye or dark coloured and immature rose to with ease, “We invited Emanuel opportunity in producing and selling grains from millet. to watch one of our sorters in operation grass seeds. However, he quickly Fast forward to 2015 when Emanuel at another plant in Austria, where he realised that the reason grass seeds are Weber, Franz’s son, took over the could see for himself its accuracy and so expensive is because cleaning and business. He selected Bühler, after efficiency. Another critical issue for sorting them is a complex process – they comparing various optical sorting Emanuel was our wide service network are so small and the difference between solutions, to reinforce Weber’s and the fact that our engineers could them and foreign seeds so slight, reputation as a leading, quality supplier be on-site quickly if there was ever an that discerning between them is very and third-party processor for small issue. Thankfully, in the two years since difficult. farmers, agri-seed processors, spice our machines were installed, Weber Mechanical engineer Franz traders and mixers. hasn’t needed an engineer call-out.”

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New Expo FoodTec Content Hub

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i Europe & Ni strengthened the role of packing and processing at the world’s leading ingredients show in November in Frankfurt.

With the Expo FoodTec Pavilion and its new Content Hub, this year’s Food ingredients Europe offered a vast range of packaging, machinery, processing and consultancy services. With 1,000 square meters dedicated to Expo FoodTec and more than 100 suppliers in attendance, Fi Europe & Ni provided insights into the most interesting technologies, as well as top quality content via presentations and speeches, all designed to meet visitor demand for a show that provides a one-stop shop for solutions.

The Expo FoodTec Pavilion was aimed at management and experts in packing and purchasing, laboratory services, quality control and R&D. For the first time ever, an information centre at the heart of the Expo FoodTec Pavilion summarised innovations, interesting start-ups and expert views. The Expo FoodTec Content Hub will deliver free-to-attend presentations, speeches and information videos as well as samples of promising new finished products.

In November Blue-tec founder Lex van Dijk explored his sustainable approach to energy efficient osmosis processing technology. Another highlight was the expert session on food fraud by Marjan de Bock Smit, founder

of SIM (Supply chain Information Management) on November 29, 2017.

On the same day, Rob Kooikmans, co-founder of FoodRecall.nl & Food Safety Experts, provided a handson explanation of how to make ingredients and food manufacturing spaces fit for the future.

Richard Joyce, Brand Director of Fi Europe & Ni, commented, “Fi Europe & Ni is and always will be an ingredients show, but there are so many interesting involvements between ingredients and the various aspects of FoodTec that we feel a strong commitment to present these to our visitors. In future, we would like to further develop this zone within Fi Europe & Ni. The Content Hub is a first step – there is so much to talk about.”

To underline the importance of the Expo FoodTec zone, a special award category within the Fi Europe Innovation Awards was dedicated to innovative FoodTec products or concepts.

Almex extruders are used for : » Pet Food extrusion » (floating) Aquafeed extrusion » Animal Feed extrusion » Oil seed extraction » Cereal processing extrusion » Compacting » Pre-conditioning prior to other processes

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Training The US Department of Agriculture collaborated with IGP to provide a Cochran Fellowship Program for professionals from Egypt in grain marketing.

Bringing Egyptians for grain market training Grain marketing and risk management is one aspect in the grain industry that Kansas State University’s IGP Institute covers in several of its courses each year. The USDA Cochran Program for Egypt – Risk Management for Grains and Oilseeds course was held at the IGP Institute Conference Center, October 15-27, 2017.

The two-week programme included classroom presentations and discussions, as well as multiple tours of agricultural places of importance throughout Kansas.

Shaza Omar, second phytosanitary specialist at Central Administration for Plant Quarantine in Dokki, Giza, Egypt, commented, “I have really enjoyed having a comprehensive look where the grains are grown and the procedures in the production chain that are important while I can evaluate the risks of different imports coming into Egypt.”

One of the critical focuses for his programme was educating the participants on grain quality and grain and food safety. Egypt is developing its new transparency policy regarding food safety issues on grain imports for the country; the IGP team will be issuing a report that will be influential in Egypt’s new importation policies.

The second part of the Certified Advanced Training Course offered by the flour improvement and flour fortification specialist Mühlenchemie and its local partner Samin Nan Sahar brought 18 representatives of the Iranian milling industry together in Teheran in July. At the Sahar Bread School the participants made a closer study of the theoretical and practical aspects of the topic “Enzymes and Baking”.

Continuation “Certified Advanced Training Course” The course consists of three seminars based on each other. The first part, held in February, drew 15 participants from the Iranian milling industry. The introductory unit, “From flour to bread”, now formed the basis of the second course, which 18 participants attended.

Iranian mills are currently faced with major challenges, since

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they have fewer and fewer wheat suppliers to choose from. They therefore have to take appropriate measures in order to offer their customers flour of uniformly high quality.

Nazim Hamed, Mühlenchemie’s Area Sales Manager, Greater Middle East, explained, “We exchanged information on flour improvement in an intensive dialogue, as theoretical training, and substantiated it with several baking trials.”

He continued, “We are very pleased we were able to meet the participants expectations. All the participants in the first course attended the second unit too. That goes to show how important it is to ensure a dialogue between mills and suppliers of materials they need.”

In order to continue this strategy, the company has officially introduced its customers to Farzad Asalipisheh as the new “Sales Manager Iran”.

When the students have attended all three seminars they will be issued a certificate as confirmation. The third seminar, on the subject of “Problem Solving and Claim Handling” will take place in the fourth quarter of 2017.

The 4B Touchswitch

PRODUCT FOCUS December 2017 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will be saving you time and money in the milling process.

The Touchswitch is an electromechanical limit switch with no moving parts, that detects the misalignment of both pulleys and belts in conveyors and bucket elevators. The sensor detects the lateral force of the belt or pulley and activates a voltage free relay contact. This relay contact can be used to activate an alarm or shutdown the machine. The sensors are normally installed in pairs on opposite sides of the belt/ pulley.

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TotalSense IoT The digital rice analyser TotalSense enables the reduction of costs, improvement of quality for rice processors. It is part of Bßhler’s digitalisation initiative featuring a number of solutions that leverage the power of IoT. This mobile rice analyser speeds up the quality process and introduces objective and traceable data through the use of the Internet of Things and cloud technology.

The mobile rice analyser delivers reports on quality within minutes by uploading a picture sample to a cloud based solution. As a result, rice farmers save precious time and benefit from an early warning system that prevents the contamination of entire batches.

FineTek Wireless module monitoring system End Device: Wireless communication support for transmitter/ switch. Router: collect/transmit point-point communication data of each terminal among system structure. Increase transmission distance to enhance communication capability of monitoring system.

Coordinator: enable central control system & MMS to control each wireless device.

Retrieve measurement data of each sensor to achieve unlimited measuring purpose.

HubLink: Expand sensor connection by wire/wireless.

Max. 4 sets of 4-20mA or RS485 communication protocol or optional 4 sets of 1W or I/O.

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Accurate and efficient dosing of micro-ingredients

SIL 3-capable device provides greater measurement reliability, helping to increase process optimisation and support plant safety.

A combination of Small, Micro, and Precision Ingredient Dosing is a solution for achieving optimum accuracy while maintaining production speed in such situations.

Emerson has launched a dedicated version of its Rosemount™ 5408 NonContacting Radar Level Transmitter to meet the specific demands of bulk solids level measurement.

The final design proposal is based on an integrated system of individual dosing units, consisting of a combination of micro-dosing (up to 20 or 50 kg) and small dosing (up to 75, 100, or 200 kg), with each dosing system being able to dose eight different ingredients. A precision dosing system (up to 1 kg) can also be integrated into the micro-dosing unit.

It measures solids level in vessels, bins and silos presents various challenges, the most fundamental of which is the inclining or sloping nature of the material surface.

By using a signal processing algorithm that merges surface peaks, the Rosemount 5408 provides a high level of accuracy.

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SPECIAL FOCUS PTN’s Quick Die Change system, proven technology since 1988.

Downtime of a Pellet Mill, due to die change negatively influences the production process; reducing the duration of the die change is hence an important focus for feed mill operators.

The innovative Quick Die Change System(QDC) of Pelleting Technology Netherlands improves efficiency by shortening die replacement time to approx. 10-12 minutes.

The QDC system, based on the nut-and-bolt principle, can easily be done by just one operator. It is not a hard job! Through this system, operators have more time left for other important issues in the feed mill.

In addition to the increased efficiency, time and cost-saving advantages, there is the possibility to produce feed with different pellet sizes and special feed in the same pellet mill; the system also makes the line flexible to produce special feed just in time.

How it works: a short explanation of the working principle

De-mounting of the die

Remove the feed drum. Turn the rollers away from the die (for a quick turning away of the rollers from the die we recommend our Remote Roller Adjustment system ARA).

After connecting the die to the chain hoist with the hoisting tool, the six pressure release bolts on the rotor have to be loosened by only two rotations. This creates a gap between the nut and the intermediate ring and in this way the tension on the screw thread will be taken away.

Using the slowly rotating turning gear the die can be taken off the rotor like a nut of a bolt. Once the die is loosened from the rotor the die can be lowered to the floor with the chain hoist.

PTN’s Quick Die Change system Mounting of the die

First of all, the pressure release bolts have to be tightened. The die has to be lifted with the hoisting tool and the chain hoist, in such a way that the screw thread of the die is on the same level as the screw thread on the rotor.

The die has to be pushed a little in the direction of the rotor and in the meantime, the slowly turning gear has to be started. Through rotation, the die is connected to the rotor as a nut on a bolt. A limit switch turns off the gear motor in time to prevent damage on the drive.

The hoist tool and the chain hoist have to be taken away. The feed drum has to be mounted again. Before the production can start again, the rollers have to be brought into position.

Specifications

o This system is available for our Progress 850 an Progress 900 Pellet Mills. o Die holder with screw-thread on the outside. o Nut with screw-thread on the inside is mounted on the die. o Intermediate ring between die holder and nut, including 6 pressure release bolts. o Foot-operated turning gear with pneumatic coupling to the intermediate shaft. o By rotating the rotor slowly right and left the die can be demounted and mounted respectively.

Every die has to be foreseen with a QDC nut with inside screwthread on the back side and with a die reinforcing ring on the front side.

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SCALING UP NUTRITION: TANZANIA HITS THE ROAD

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by Steve Godfrey, Chief Investment Officer, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

TANZANIA'S FIVE-YEAR STRATEGY TO TACKLE MALNUTRITION his week, Tanzania launched its fiveyear strategy to tackle malnutrition, and reviewed progress – the National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP). Political leadership was in abundance. But equally encouraging is the size and quality of efforts to build the machinery to deliver it.

First, leadership

Some feared that the exceptional personal commitment of former President Kikwete on nutrition would be a hard act to follow. PM Kasim Majaliwa, as well as the Finance and Health Ministers spent two hours at the session.

Three weeks ago, Vice President (VP) Mama Suluhu brought a team of five ministers to the national summit on strengthening food fortification. The passion is evident – but backed by specific budget, performance and staffing commitments (more below). It’s unusual to hear a Minister of Finance speak 15 minutes on malnutrition – its damage to the economy and harshest impact on the poorest. He is appointing a focal point in the Ministry to handle nutrition, maybe a first.

Second, budget commitment and spending

This year the government will double spending to Tz11bn shillings (US$6M) for local government actions for nutrition support to Maternal Infant and Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition (MIYCAN) – now adding adolescents to mothers, infants and young children. In the past budgets have been underspent (52% in 2016/17), so the VP is bringing regional commissioners together next month to sign performance contracts to deliver this.

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Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister and President’s office also attended and spoke). Overall, the number of local nutrition workers will rise from 120 to over 600 next year.

Third, while not perfect (what is?) one real quality of the strategy is its breadth

UNICEF’s Maniza Zaman said that this is not just a measurement framework on results, but also on resource flows and accountability. The systems put in place need development partners to up their game in reporting, but a good set of tracking and reporting scorecards are in place.

Finally, there is growing capacity and commitment at community and local government level – presentations on local in-clinic alternative models for Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), using traditional leaders to manage Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), new ways to identify and screen children, and using local foods better. The 100 local nutrition officers, civil society and academe present were passionate.

Different perspectives create opportunities for alternate reflections

Malnutrition and food systems are a complex problem, and there are always multiple challenges. From an outside – and imperfect – perspective here are a few which may be worth reflecting upon.

First, while public sector investments in nutrition sensitive areas (ag, health, education etc.) are being measured (and not doing badly, and they make up 70% of the total strategy investment), a wider social effort to involve opinion leaders across community, faith, and media is needed to make the issue a bigger priority.

Leadership needs to be extended to all walks of life. Government can only do so much.

Second, while the overall strategy is comprehensive, it is focused on nutrition specific actions and needs more on building a healthier food system. Only three of the 29 indicators are linked to food systems (two on fortification, one on dietary diversity).

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STRONG ENOUGH TO FACE EVERYTHING!

There are worrying dietary trends causing ill health (globally, and in Tanzania – one presentation estimated that type-2 diabetes will rise to 7.9% by 2025). Grappling with the food system means building partnerships with business to boost the consumption of healthy and affordable diets, and curb elevated consumption of harmful foods. World Food Programme (WFP) reported that 59 percent of households couldn’t afford a nutritious diet. A start has been made in fortifying staples, and launching the Tanzania SUN Business Network, which has 90 members, but this is the least elaborated part of the strategy and there were no businesses among the 200+ participants. The strategy calls for 10 percent of the investment from business, a pioneering effort – but there are few roadmaps globally to draw on.

Third, Tanzania is increasing its domestic investment in nutrition, and it would be great to see more co-investments from donor partners. At present about 43 percent of spending is from international partners. A core of donors have some engagement (USAID, DFID, Irish Aid, CIFF, World Bank, Power of Nutrition, Canada, EU) but the allocation of aid budgets to nutrition is small. As the Heads of the World Bank and AFDB have said, nutrition is a top candidate for development impact. The Netherlands recently joined the effort and made a grant through GAIN for work on fortification and for SBN. UNICEF and WFP are doing great work. Although Tanzania has many donors, more is needed for nutrition!

Tanzania has 50 million people and as the Minister of Health reminded, a third of its children are stunted and anemia is widespread. It will need to sustain the energy in the room (ululation, sirens accompanying the signing ceremony, a buzz which clearly impressed the PM) by building of public awareness and institutional investment.

But overall, it feels like SUN is going to see some success in Tanzania. All development roads are bumpy, but Tanzania is on the way to building a nutrition four by four.

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Defining flour water absorption with high-precision dosage

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by Brabender, Germany n the literal meaning of “on top”, Brabender now introduces its automated water dosing system for the Farinograph-TS. The new Aqua-Inject is a real high-tech piece of equipment: Dosing can be realised with the highest level of precision. In the 300g mixer, accuracy of 0.25ml can be achieved. This is achieved thanks to a new technology, in which a miniaturised rotating turbine measures the flow rate of the water being dosed. The integrated heating module makes temperature control superfluous during dosing, ensuring constant water temperatures in your lab processes.

This increases the accuracy and reproducibility of the results, as any possible effects that ambient temperature may have on water dosing are eliminated. Automatic titration instead of manual dosing removes discrepancies caused by humans at a stroke, and ‘adieu burette’ also brings with it two safety arguments: Usage errors are minimised, and glass breakage as a possible critical hazard point for food processing operations is ruled out at this stage.

Last but not least: Not only does the new Aqua-Inject simplify operation for laboratory staff, but it also reduces your investment costs.

High-precision dosage: The new Brabender Aqua-Inject measures the flow rate of the water being dosed by means of a miniaturised rotating turbine.

Flour analysis in digital dimensions

The Aqua-Inject has been designed as an add-on module for use with Brabender’s Farinograph-TS. It can however also be adapted for use with the E-series Farinographs (with USB connection).

However, in this instance, connection to the MetaBridge Controller is required, whose software then controls the Aqua-Inject module.

The Brabender MetaBridge controls the new Aqua-Inject, which is the standard software for the Farinograph-TS. In conjunction with the MetaBridge Controller, the device can also be used with the Farinograph-E. Today, reliable and reproducible testing of the processing characteristics and quality of flour products is a basic requirement in the milling and baking industry, in order to ensure continuously optimised flour quality when producing the widest variety of baked or pasta products. The Brabender Farinograph has proved 48 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

itself ideal for this task over the course of decades, which has made it the world’s most widely used piece of equipment for determining the properties of wheat flour and rye flour.

The TS generation is the latest addition to the Farinograph range from the company based in Duisburg, Germany. The TS distinguishes itself thanks to its space-saving compact housing shape, and is ready for immediate operation thanks to plug and play functionality. Its modular design is optionally available with a touch screen. And the digital icing on the cake: The Farinograph TS already features the groundbreaking MetaBridge software as standard.

Brabender has forged new paths with this software, as well as with the MetaBridge Controller (MBC) as a digital tool for Lab 4.0. Your staff therefore gets more than just some additional interactive interface. Instead, the software makes lab work and results compatible. Several colleagues can simultaneously carry out, track or manage measurements – all using standard operating systems spanning from Android or Apple via Blackberry and Linux to various Windows applications from Microsoft.

The web-based software does not require local installation, which in turn enables equipment to be connected without problems occurring. And when it comes to security, it has three plus points: • Password-protected login protects against unauthorised access; • The administrator mode enables you to individually customise access rights; • The Linux-based software architecture makes the system more secure on the web.

The MetaBridge and the controller work in tandem, and were specially designed by Brabender to work with Brabender equipment. Their functions and measurement profiles are therefore optimally tailored to work with it. When the MBC is connected, the laboratory’s wealth of knowledge stored in its data remains intact, meaning it can be systematically developed.

Thanks to adaptation to existing device know-how, users benefit from consistent, company-specific performance.

Multiple users can access different output devices at the same time, for example to track a current farinogram on various different terminals. This multi-access saves time, as well as enabling the continuous exchange of information and making it easier for those responsible for quality management to make qualified decisions.

To this end, the MetaBridge solution has four important bonuses:

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• Info about updates of the instrument software is received automatically; • It is possible to receive direct feedback from Brabender on measurement results; • In the event of a fault, the Brabender service technicians can quickly help via remote access, removing the need for a site visit; • Within the device network, there are no charges for additional user licences.

An upgrade for the day-to-day lab work classic

As a proven lab analysis classic, the farinogram shows the quality characteristics of the flour being tested in a rheologically realistic test for the dough phase. In its measuring mixer, the flour/water sample is kneaded, and the knead resistance is measured as a torsional moment according to the viscosity of the dough: This enables water absorption, dough development time, stability, fermentation tolerance and the degree of

softening to be reliably depicted.

But with the MetaBridge, a Brabender Farinograph can now do even more. The software records the measurements vividly, enabling monitoring, analysis and documentation of the measurement data – on the equipment itself, or, if required, on external monitors for others to see.

As well as the standard analysis, the software offers countless possibilities for designing your own custom tests with the Farinographs of the TS generation, for example: • Shorter test length and/or higher kneading intensity via adjustable rotational speed (2–200 rpm); • Variable kneading intensity and energy input into the dough for applications in research and development; • Programming of more complex rotational speed profiles, e.g. premixing at lower rotational speeds, kneading at higher rotational speeds, or the definition of pause times for longer dough-making processes; • Analysis of charts with atypical farinogram profiles, such as

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Dosing water automatically, tracking farinograms on your mobile end device: The Brabender MetaBridge makes it possible, as the Farinograph-TS standard software or as an add-on, i.e. for the Farinograph-E. In order that measurements can be carried out not only quickly, but also without errors, MetaBridge offers an intrasystem quality assurance process, featuring several features for the prevention of errors. So, for example, the measurement range is set according to the specified instrument configuration; tarring is automatic, and for farinograms, increments, timings and threshold values are already integrated. But of course, they can also be modified on a product or company-specific basis.

As a further innovation, the MetaBridge software in conjunction with the Aqua-Inject enables automatic creation of a titration curve if flour with unknown water absorption needs to be tested. This makes it possible to carry out other lab work in the meantime, whereas before, painstaking and time-consuming manual titration was necessary.

During the software development stage, the MetaBridge ‘bridge builders’ also built in further intelligent communication opportunities, which enable connection to existing laboratory management systems, and in particular optimise customer communication of measurement results. It goes without saying that Brabender applications can call up the widest range of international benchmarks and display them effectively.

Double controlled reliability with the calibration kit Regular control measurements for the Farinograph-TS,

using the Brabender reference material, secure reliability of the measurement data. The combination of specially prepared calibration flour and its reference curve offers direct comparison of an on-site device’s measurement values to the target measurement values. This is an easy matter using the calibration kit that can be obtained: Simply prepare the sample according to the specifications, carry out the test and compare the values to those of the supplied reference curve taken from the master equipment in Brabender’s service laboratory.

If the values are within the permitted tolerance range, the lab equipment’s measurement values, as well as their validity, are okay. But if, despite repeated testing, the values lie outside the tolerance range, the MetaBridge offers an optional bridge, enabling you to search for the cause and quickly rectify it, online and together with the experts.

Grounded competence and professional dialogue meaningfully linked

The software’s many features, along with the combination of instruments in networked interplay, increases a company’s depth of rheological competence and experience. The model-like simulation of parameters makes it possible to test alternative processing procedures, such as for example the effect and observation – live on screen – of recipe additions to dough development during kneading.

This makes professional dialogue between partners in the value creation chain much easier when it comes to making decisions on complex quality requirements, as well as providing documented data that can be used for certifications or audits. QA staff and auditors alike will be equally delighted by this.

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Addressing pandemic micronutrient deficiencies through

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by the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IFSBH)

lour fortification involves adding essential vitamins and minerals to flour as it is milled, which in turn makes foods prepared with fortified flour more nutritious.

Iron, zinc, folic acid, and other B vitamins are commonly added to wheat and maize flours. The potential for fortified foods to help address global nutritional deficiencies has long been acknowledged, with fortification strategies increasingly being prioritised as our interest and understanding of micronutrient malnutrition, and its fundamental role in the overall burden of global disease, has developed. Almost 20 years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified iron, iodine, vitamin A and zinc deficiencies as being ‘among the world’s most serious health risk factors, ’ (World Health Report, 2000).

More than two billion people worldwide are now affected by micronutrient deficiencies. Contrary to popular belief, these dietary deficiencies are a global public health concern, not just an issue unique to developing countries, although undoubtedly this is where their burden is most keenly felt.

In an ideal world, everyone would eat a well-balanced, healthy diet, rich in all essential micronutrients to maintain good health.

However, this ideal is over simplistic, and in reality a complex combination of social, environmental and economic factors make this basic prerequisite for good health unachievable for many.

Food fortification has been utilised in industrialised societies for over three quarters of a century to replace vital nutrients lost as a result of food processing, so fortification is by no means a new concept. It is undoubtedly the most cost-effective way to ensure that people get enough vitamins and minerals through a nonhealth intervention.

importantly, sustainable means possible.

The Smarter Futures is the brainchild of project partners, the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI), AkzoNobel, Helen Keller International, and the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF), co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and supported both financially and technically by many other organisations, including the Laboratory of Cereal Technology, Ghent University, Belgium. The project partners are all committed to the primary prevention of health concerns caused by vitamin and mineral deficiencies, such as Neural Tube Defects (NTDs), impaired learning capacity and decreased productivity.

Prevention is the best cure

Fortification is a highly successful means of addressing such deficiencies, as it delivers essential nutrients and does not require consumers to actively change their eating or buying habits.

Whilst the fortification of staple foods benefits the health of people across the population, the key beneficiaries of the Smarter

Smarter Futures

Smarter Futures is a public-private-civic partnership that supports similar partnerships of flour millers, governments, vitamin and mineral suppliers, international organisations, and academic institutions to make fortification of wheat flour a reality in Africa. In countries, these partnerships are known as National Fortification Alliances. It is a sustainable fortification project, providing technical support and training for flour millers, government food control staff, academic institutions and other stakeholders in Africa involved in the fortification of wheat and maize flour with vitamins and minerals.

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Futures project are women of childbearing age, adolescents (especially girls) and young children. It is in these groups particularly where the greatest public health consequences are felt, through maternal health, foetal development, child growth and cognitive development, infant mortality and immunity to infection. Fortification ensure that women get iron, folic acid and other essential vitamins and minerals well before they get pregnant.

In the last 10 years, 41 countries have benefitted as a result of training, meetings and events conducted by the Smarter Futures team, with 27 of these countries subsequently implementing mandatory fortification, with a further 5 opting to fortify voluntarily. As a result, this unique partnership has gained

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Achieving an effective public health impact

Smarter Futures signature activity are the multi-sectoral, multicountry Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) training workshops that it has organised annually. The workshop methodology is designed to ensure that wheat and maize flour fortification programmes are implemented correctly to achieve an effective public health impact.

The aim of the workshops is to increase the capacity and commitment of wheat and maize flour millers to implement adequate QA and QC systems, so that they are consistently producing a safe, high quality product that meets national standards and specifications.

Similarly, the regulatory authorities attending the workshops will have increased capacity and commitment to monitor fortified food production in an effective, efficient and sustainable way. The workshops have been shown to foster an improved dialogue between wheat and maize flour millers and relevant government regulatory authorities, and an improved understanding of requirements, roles and responsibilities of the national stakeholders. Over the years, QA/ QC workshops have been held in Dakar, Senegal; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Casablanca, Morocco; Harare, Zimbabwe, Kampala, Uganda and Lusaka, Zambia for varying sub-regional groups of countries.

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Following on from the success of the Global Fortification Summit held in Arusha, Tanzania in September 2015, and involvement in the subsequent Post Summit Technical Advisory Group (TAG), 2016 was a groundbreaking year for the Smarter Futures partnership. Staff have been involved in international activities, such as the 27th International Conference for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus in Ghent (where Dr Filip Van Bockstaele detailed the extensive work being done in Africa), and advocacy work with UN agencies, including WHO. A number of monitoring and training missions were also undertaken by the partnership, including quality control/ quality assurance and capacity building visits organised by partner, Helen Keller International to Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sénégal, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Niger.

These visits resulted in the training of many stakeholders (including importers and food inspectors), in addition to achieving measurable improvements in capacity building, industry standards and compliance.

The partnership has taken a number of steps to progress research and training relating to fortification, with partners Akzo Nobel developing a new portable kit to test the iron content of flour (reducing testing timescales from a day, to a few minutes), and partners FFI, Kansas State University and GAIN developing and implementing a new online QA/QC training tool suitable for both individual and group training.

Looking forward

Looking forward, Smarter Futures continues to develop new areas of work towards the progression of fortification, including

expanding its remit to encompass strategies for maize and rice fortification, following feasibility studies conducted in 2016.

However, challenges still remain to overcome barriers preventing the implementation of effective mandatory fortification programmes in a number of countries.

As such, the project will continue to advocate on the significant preventative health benefits of mandatory fortification and the subsequent cost benefits at country level, through active community engagement in advocacy activities and the provision of cost benefit analysis workshops and associated training Through methods such as; helping to build capacity for monitoring, surveillance and training, based on the FORTIMAS (Fortification Monitoring and Surveillance) methodology; providing technical support and problems solving assistance at country level; sharing and promoting examples of good practice, and supporting those already fortifying (but not yet fully compliant with WHO guidance), to increase compliance with mandatory legislation and consequently improving the effectiveness of their existing programmes.

Smarter Futures continues to build on the progress made to date, and remains committed to using its effective collective action model, building capacity and advocacy to enable countries to implement sustainable fortification programmes. Over the coming years, the project aims to increase the number of countries implementing mandatory fortification strategies, with a particular focus on countries with high per capita consumption of wheat and or maize flour. These include Algeria, Angola, Botswana, DRC (south eastern region), Ethiopia, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, Tunisia and Zambia. www.smarterfutures.net

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This piece was written jointly by members of the Global Fortification Data Exchange core group. Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of GAIN; Scott J. Montgomery is director of the Food Fortification Initiative; Dr. Jonathan Gorstein is Executive Director of the Iodine Global Network; and Homero Martinez is Senior Advisor to the Micronutrient Forum Secretariat.

hat do blindness, stunted growth, and brain damage in children all have in common? They can all be caused by a form of malnutrition that is largely invisible and nearly entirely preventable — micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger.

Deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals such as vitamin A, iron, folic acid, and iodine can have devastating effects. While these nutrients are only needed in very small amounts, they are essential for normal growth and optimal health. Deficiency can prevent an expectant mother from carrying to term or cause a child to endure irreversible brain damage and thereby limit his or her ability to learn, earn a living, or live a healthy life. These debilitating consequences damage whole communities, as well as economies.

Past estimates from the World Health Organization indicate that millions of people may be at risk of iodine deficiency, and 2.8 million people die annually from iron, vitamin A, or zinc deficiency.

GFDx Core Group remarked, “Access to data on food fortification can enable data driven policy and programming decisions that will affect the health and well-being of populations.”

One simple, safe, effective, and inexpensive solution is food fortification. Adding minerals and vitamins to staple foods and condiments has led to a dramatic decline in hidden hunger globally. Even so, millions of people worldwide remain vulnerable, with children and pregnant women in low-income countries disproportionately affected.

For those working to combat hidden hunger with food fortification, a new global data tool sheds light on the status of national food fortification programmes, and provides data

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to guide informed actions toward achieving optimal micronutrient intake through food fortification.

An effective solution in need of a roadmap

The Global Fortification Data Exchange, or GFDx, launched on September 6, 2017, presents data from more than 230 countries and territories for the five most commonly fortified staple foods and condiments: wheat flour, maize flour, rice, edible oils, and salt.

As fortification uses existing supply chains and provides micronutrients through the foods people eat already, it offers a way to affordably reach broad segments of the population.

Many countries have nearly eliminated nutrition-related diseases such as goiter and rickets as a direct result of effective food fortification.

Micronutrient-deficiency control interventions, including food fortification, are among the most cost-effective global development investments, according to the Copenhagen Consensus, with a cost benefit ratio of roughly 1:30. By preventing undernutrition, fortification can save national economies of an estimated two to three percent of gross domestic product.

F While food fortification has tremendous potential to significantly improve nutrition, coverage of this proven intervention is highly variable throughout the world. In many countries, progress has stalled due to a lack of investment and political will, low adherence to mandatory policies and standards, and insufficient data. Today, some of the most undernourished households have no access to fortified foods.

GFDx: Delivering on a shared commitment to data

The GFDx emerged out of a consensus on the need for more and better data on food fortification to end hidden hunger. At the first Global Summit on Food Fortification – held in Arusha, Tanzania, in 2015 – leaders agreed that it was critical to improve access to data. They made a collective commitment, captured in the 2015 Arusha Statement on Food Fortification.

Following that dialogue, the Food Fortification Initiative, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Iodine Global Network, and Micronutrient Forum, established the GFDx as a global hub for micronutrient food fortification data. Each group acts as a steward of global micronutrient fortification data. Brought together in the GFDx, their data will drive evidence-based change in policy and action against hidden hunger.

Harvesting data for nutrition

The GFDx presents a common set of indicators across multiple fortified foods at a global scale using novel interactive maps and charts. It houses data on food fortification legislation from 1942 to the present, available regulatory standards, food availability, and intake. Users can compare information and visualisations across geographies and food vehicles.

Stakeholders – including nongovernmental organisations advocating for fortification in a country, national health ministries, and legislative bodies wanting to know which neighbouring countries have fortification legislation – can use the GFDx to identify areas of need and opportunities to implement food fortification programmes based on experiences in other countries.

Access to data on food fortifcation can enable data-driven policy and programming decisions that will affect the health and well being of the populations. The GFDx is designed to answer specific and practical questions and project the potential of food fortification to meet nutrient requirements. With multiple visualisation options, people can use the GFDx to generate custom maps, charts and tables within the tool, or to download data for offline analysis.

A call to action for more and better data

At present, the GFDx relies on data from governments, nongovernmental organisations, programme implementers, normative agencies, donors, academia, and the private sector. The success of this resource is dependent on the on-going contribution of data from partner organisations.

Access to a reliable, collaborative resource for tracking fortification efforts around the globe is the first step toward successful policies and programmes. By consolidating all available data, the tool exposes data gaps and identifies areas where others in the nutrition community might contribute.

The GFDx is a resource to address, with unprecedented confluence of evidence, one of the most wide-reaching global health problems. Hidden hunger damages communities and the economies of entire nations; it puts expectant mothers at risk, increases mortality and impairs cognitive development of newborns, all of which undermine the efforts to end global poverty. It will take collective, sustained commitment to translate momentum into results to eliminate hidden hunger.

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There’s too much starch in that bran!

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The detection of residual starch in bran

by Thomas Ziolko, Bühler AG

oo much residual starch in bran means foregoing profit for millers. Bühler offers two ways out of the ‘residual starch dead end’ with its online measuring technology: the NIR Multi Online Analyzer MYRG or the Online Color and Speck Measurement MYHB. Both methods measure and report an increase in residual starch without loss of time making prompt correction possible.

In the grain milling industry the term extraction rate describes the amount of flour that can be made from 100 kg of grain. In modern milling operations, yield calculators continually monitor production and determine the degree of extraction. The goal of every miller when producing white, low-ash flour is to separate as much of the endosperm from the husk (bran) as possible. Bran is considered a by-product in milling and can be used as an additive for feed or sold as it is.

Optimum extraction rate

ash content in the flour is low. If the miller determines this is true, he can use polarimetric starch determination according to Ewers (ISO 105020:1997) in the lab to determine the residual starch content in the bran. This method dissolves the raw starch in the test sample in hot, diluted hydrochloric acid.

After precipitation of the spurious substances, the optical

“Too much residual starch in bran means foregoing profit for millers" rotation of the raw starch solution is polarimetrically measured and the starch content is calculated based on the rotation angle.

This is an old method and has its pitfalls: A conventional value results because other optically active carbohydrates (particularly water soluble ones) can be detected as well. It is also timeconsuming and requires chemicals, which is why very few millers use this method regularly. Sometimes the samples are sent to an external laboratory.

The reverse way is also a possibility: The ash in the bran is

Flour particles that stick to the bran as residual starch in the separation process are considered a loss by the miller. The higher the extraction rate, the higher the yield and thus also the miller’s profit.

However, it should be noted that as the extraction rate increases, more edge and husk particles are released from the grain along with the flour starch. With a higher extraction rate, the flour becomes darker and has higher ash content. Millers will do everything they Modification of the processes in grinding with influence on the starch content of the bran can to achieve the optimal extraction rate based on the desired type of flour and customer requirements. This includes trying to avoid too high of a residual starch content in the bran which means lower yields.

Of course, other parameters that influence the baking properties must also be taken into consideration.

Polarimetric determination

But how can the miller determine whether ‘his’ bran has too much residual starch?

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F measured. Most millers simply eyeball whether there is too much starch in the bran - the lighter it is, the more residual starch it contains.

Changing the grinding gap

What should the miller do when he determines that there is too much residual starch in the bran?

An immediate measure is to check the back passages in the grinding process and see if the rollers are too high and thus the grinding gap too large. If that is not the case, the overall settings for the passes are not right.

For instance, if the grinding gap in the front passes is too big, then the back passages are overloaded. They will not be able to loosen the remaining residual starch. In this case, checking the overall settings of all roller mills becomes inevitable.

Online measurement technology

Bühler offers two ways out of the ‘residual starch dead end’ with its online measurement technology: the NIR Multi Online Analyzer MYRG or the online color and specks measurement MYHB. Both online methods are suitable for determining the residual starch in bran. The quantitative NIR method aims for a high degree of conformity with the official reference method ISO 105020:1997. Its use is particularly recommended if a NIR Multi Online Analyzer MYRG is already present in the mill.

In this case, an additional NIR sensor is sufficient. The color and specks measurement MYHB is used when there is no MYRG system available. It can be a cost-effective alternative to qualitative monitoring of the bran.

Calculation example

How much can the yield be increased if the residual starch in the bran is permanently monitored online?

Statistics show: For a well-managed mill, yields can be increased by about 0.5 percent. For a poorly managed mill, improvements in yield can be up to three percent.

What does that mean from a financial point of view?

Let’s assume that the mixing bran has a residual starch of 19 percent. With proper intervention, this can be reduced to 16 percent. The three percent residual starch recouped corresponds to a total yield of 0.66 percent at a bran yield of 22 percent.

If a ton of wheat is ground, the final measurement is an additional 6.6 kilograms. These 6.6 kilograms, as part of the bran, have a value of 0.60 euros but, as flour, it can be sold for 2.64 euros. The difference for the miller is 2.04 euros per ton. If the mill capacity is 220 t/24 hrs., that is an additional revenue of 450 euros per day or EU€160,000 per year. thomas.ziolko@buhlergroup.com

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PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO MYCTOXINS FROM WHEAT SAMPLES ACROSS POLAND

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by Radka Borutova, Business Development Manager, Nutriad

econdary metabolites that are produced by filamentous fungi, or mycotoxins, cause a toxic response when ingested by farm and companion animals alike.

Fusarium, Aspergillus, and Penicillium are the most abundant moulds that produce these toxins. They contaminate human foods and animal feeds through fungal growth prior to and during harvest, or during improper storage (Bhatnagar et al., 2004).

The 2017 Nutriad Mycotoxin Survey covered 88 wheat samples from across Poland. The survey provided insight into the incidences of aflatoxin B1 (AfB1), zearalenone (ZEN), deoxynivalenol (DON), T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, fumonisin B1 (FB1), fumonisin B2 (FB2) and ochratoxin A (OTA). The wheat samples were collected directly from farms or animal feed production sites. Sample providers were advised to follow the principles of good sampling (Richard, 2000). Analytical personnel and laboratory staff were not involved, and therefore did not influence any part of sampling.

All 88 samples were collected almost immediately after harvesting and so the probability of storage mycotoxins (OTA) developing was low. More than 700 analyses were conducted to test for the occurrence of the eight mycotoxins most frequently found in agricultural commodities intended for animal production. All eight mycotoxins were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC MS/MS). For the purpose of data analysis, non-detection levels were based on the limits of quantification (LOQ) of the test method for each mycotoxin: AfB1 < 1 μg/kg; ZEN < 10 μg/kg; DON < 50 μg/kg; FB1 < 50 μg/kg; FB2 < 50 μg/kg; OTA < 0,5 μg/kg; T-2 toxin < 20 μg/kg and HT-2 toxin < 50 μg/kg.

Results

The results showed that 83 percent of the wheat samples were contaminated with DON. None of the samples contained AfB1, FB1, FB2, T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin. Only 2.3 percent of samples contained ZEN, an unexpectedly low incidence of contamination. The average concentrations of the recovered mycotoxins were low. The highest concentration of DON found

Table 1 – Mycotoxin contamination of wheat in Poland AfB1

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ZEN

T-2 toxin

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Figure 1 – Comparison of percentage of positive samples (DON and ZEN) in 2016 and 2017.

in one of the samples was 3990 μg/kg. As expected, the results showed that 1.1 percent of wheat samples were contaminated with OTA and the highest concentration found in one sample was two μg/kg.

The contamination levels of DON and ZEN in wheat in 2017 were much lower than in 2016 (Table 2). However, the percentage of samples contaminated with DON were higher in 2017 than in 2016 (Figure 1 and Table 2). In 2016, there were higher incidences of other mycotoxins compared to 2017 where only three mycotoxins types (DON, ZEN, OTA) were detected.

Conclusion

The Nutriad 2017 mycotoxin survey concluded that the year’s

harvest of wheat in Poland was of medium quality (>LOD but below EU recommendation levels) in terms of mycotoxin contamination. This is an improvement when compared to last year’s harvest. Based on the results of the survey conducted immediately after the 2017 wheat harvest, the 2017 wheat crop in Poland should not automatically be considered safe for inclusion into finished feed rations for all animal species and a degree of vigilance is prudent. Special attention should be paid to the very high incidence of DON found in over 80 percent of the samples and to the maximum recovered concentration, which almost reached four mg/kg.

Vigilance is always advisable as cereals in animal feeds originate from many sources. Some continental European cereals and South American soya harvested in 2017 were shown to be contaminated with medium to high concentrations of mycotoxins.

The last possible line of defense is the detoxification of mycotoxins in vivo. The addition of proven mycotoxin deactivators to animal feeds is a very common method to prevent mycotoxicosis and is an effective strategy to keep mycotoxin risk low under any and all conditions.

References

Bhatnagar D, Payne GA, Cleveland TE, Robens JF. 2004.

Mycotoxins: current issues in the USA. In: Barug D, Van Egmond HP, Lo´pez-Garcı´a R, Van Ossenbruggen T, Visonti A, editors.

Meeting the mycotoxin menace. Wageningen (The Netherlands): Wageningen Academic Publishers. p. 17–47.

Richard, J., 2000. Sampling and sample preparation for mycotoxin analysis. Romer® Labs Guide to Mycotoxins. 2.

Romer® Labs Inc., 1301 Stylemaster Drive, Union, MO, USA 63084-1156.

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TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT POST-WEANING PIGLET DYSBIOSIS

Probiotics may represent a safe opportunity to fight postweaning dysbiosis and enteric infections in the swine industry

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group of scientists from three research institutions –Clermont-Ferrand University (Université Clermont Auvergne – UCA –), INRA, Institut de l’Elevage, and Ghent University – and Lallemand Animal Nutrition published an in-depth review on postweaning piglet gut microbiota dysbiosis in Trends in Microbiology1.

First, the researchers reviewed the impact abrupt dietary and environmental changes during weaning caused to piglets’ digestive microbiota, which can lead to enteric problems. Next, the researchers looked into the effects of non-antimicrobial alternatives that are currently evaluated to restore intestinal balance and allow better management of the weaning transition.

One of the conclusions of this extensive review is that, “among the available alternatives, probiotics seem to have the highest potential and could represent a safe opportunity to fight against post-weaning dysbiosis and enteric infections in the swine industry.”

Additionally, the review evaluates in vitro models that have been designed to study piglet microbiota and develop new feed additives, which is aligned with the EU 2010 directive to reduce the use of animals in research.

Reviewing non-antibiotic approaches in weaning piglets

Based on the need for non-antibiotic alternative strategies to restore microbial balance and control gastro-intestinal infections associated with weaning transition in piglets, the authors reviewed studies with several types of such approaches: Zn oxide, organic acids, essential oils, prebiotics, and probiotics.

Concerning the latest, they reviewed 12 probiotic studies (six in healthy piglets, six in pathogen-challenged piglets) conducted with different types of bacteria or yeast probiotics. Conclusions indicate lactic acid bacteria showed an increased abundance of Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium spp. and a decrease in E. coli in newly weaned piglets, highlighting a strain-dependent effect.

This led researchers to conclude that, “among the available alternatives, probiotics seem to have the highest potential as they constitute the only feed additive that is efficient towards pathogenic strains in piglets. Although the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood, protection of piglets from post-weaning infections by probiotics could notably occur through inhibition of pathogen growth and adhesion to intestinal mucosa, stimulation of the piglet immune system, or modulation of the composition and activity of the resident microbiota.”1

PigutIVM: The in vitro model of the piglet colon

The same review also evaluated in vitro models of piglet gut. Lallemand Animal Nutrition, together with academic partners from UMR MEDIS INRA-ClermontFerrand University (UCA), ANSES, and Ploufragan University Bretagne Loire, has recently contributed to the development of a new dynamic in vitro model of the piglet colon, called PigutIVM. Until now, only few in vitro models of the pig gut existed and none reproduced the piglet gut. Nevertheless, such a tool would be of high interest since the first weeks of life are a critical phase in the swine growing cycle.

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the impact of antibiotics on the colonic microbiota of piglets and the effect of the probiotic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079. The first results were published earlier this year2.

The authors concluded to the relevance of this model to replicate in vivo situations, and to its possible adaptation in future research projects to study piglet digestive dysbiosis.

Interestingly the positive effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 on the decrease of E. coli levels using the PigutIVM confirmed previous in vivo evidence. A new project is on-going with the same partners to improve the model and study various dysbiosis scenarii and new ways to mitigate it.

Dr Mathieu Castex, R&D Director for Lallemand Animal Nutrition comments, “We are very proud to be involved in such advanced research into piglet microbiota. Over the past decades, ruminant researchers have focused a lot on the characterisation and understanding of the rumen microflora and experimental models, from in vitro fermenters to cannulated cows, are common tools. When Lallemand started looking into swine microbiota more than ten years ago, the level of knowledge was really low, and we acknowledged the fact that the swine microflora was underestimated.”

“Capitalising on our advances in ruminant microflora, we focused major R&D efforts on piglets’ and sows’ digestive microflora.

Development of the PigutIVM is one piece of the puzzle that will help us get a better understanding of probiotics’ and antimicrobials’ modes of action, but also to look for new solutions, a key in the actual context of antimicrobial reduction” concluded Dr Frédérique Chaucheyras-Durand, Research Manager.

References

Gresse R, Chaucheyras-Durand F, Fleury MA, Van de Wiele T, Forano E, Blanquet-Diot S. Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Postweaning Piglets: Understanding the Keys to Health. Trends

Microbiol. 2017 Jun 8. pii: S0966-842X(17)30118-X. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.05.004 Fleury MA, Le Goff O, Denis S, Chaucheyras-Durand F, Jouy E, Kempf I, Alric M, Blanquet-Diot S. Development and validation of a new dynamic in vitro model of the piglet colon (PigutIVM): application to the study of probiotics Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2017 Mar;101(6):2533-2547

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A sustainable feed for beef and dairy production

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by Michael Warren, Duynie, UK

he Brundtland Commission described sustainability as, “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

Sustainability comprises of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social sustainability, also known as the three Ps: people, profit, and planet.

Sustainability is growing in importance due to the pressures of the globe, the main pressure being the growing global population. The global population is currently in the region of 7.5 billion and it is projected to reach 10 billion people by 2050.

So that’s 10 billion people in the same space that 7.5 billion currently inhabit. It is therefore vitally important that the globe’s resources are used more wisely.

Using resources more wisely is what Duynie specialises in.

Specific to livestock production, we look at replacing intensively produced feed with co-products and specifically with regard to ruminant livestock, we work tirelessly with our team of nutritionists to optimise production from homegrown forage. We always look to supplement production with co-products as opposed to simply replacing production with intensively produced products.

It is vitally important that we, as a nation and an international community focus on sustainable ways of feeding the human population and one key way of improving global sustainability is through improving the sustainability of livestock production.

One overly simplistic argument that is being heard more and more is to remove animal source food (ASF) completely from the diet.

However, it can be argued that this could only ever be a personal choice and not a global movement. People that enjoy eating meat and drinking milk can and should be able to. Both meat and milk provide nutrients that would otherwise be unavailable to humans and it is because of this, that actually eating a diet with zero ASF is likely to be unsustainable for the human population.

It is a far better argument to insist that people source their food with sustainability at the forefront of all they do.

The answer is co-product feeds

What are co-product feeds? They are products that are produced during the manufacturing of a core product.

Co-products such as Brewers Grains have limited value in their current state as a food source for humans, and will always be produced during the manufacturing of beer. This pattern is relevant for most food manufacturing stories.

The co-products then must be removed from the manufacturing site, in any instance there are two clear choices, either to send the product to waste, or seek relevant assurances and introduce it to the animal feed chain. It is as a result of this, that we can safely say that there is only really one sustainable choice!

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F Brewers Grains as a feed source is typically tested as: 24 percent Dry matter (DM); 24 percent Crude Protein (CP); and 11.7MJ Metabolisable Energy (ME) (on a dry matter basis).

Profit: Why should you care about improving your sustainability?

By assessing the three pillars of sustainability, it is proven that being sustainable pays. Based on current market conditions, Brewers Grains have a relative feed value (RFV) of >£46/t when compared against a comparable feed basket containing a wheat, barley, soya and rape meal.

Therefore, Brewers Grains, under this price, will be an economically good purchase. As a feed, Brewers Grains have the ability to improve the efficiency of both beef and dairy production, improving DLWG and milk yield alike through minimising the use of compounds and straights and specifically to dairy rations, maximising yield from forage.

Below are two examples of where co-products have been introduced to the diet, performance on both the dairy and beef example have maintained productivity achieved in the control ration(s) as well as significantly reducing the cost of the ration, thus improving overall efficiency.

Rations balanced with co-products tend to be cheaper, more palatable, and overall a more sustainable option.

Why would you not feed co-products?

To quantify the statement above, to follow are two ration comparisons. One is comparing a series of beef rations, two of which are traditional style beef finishing rations and one

is a co-product based ration, all the beef rations displayed achieve a DLWG of 1.5kg per head per day. The other ration comparison is designed for a Holstein/Friesian dairy herd achieving 35 litres per head per day.

When investigating the beef ration comparison, it should be noted that the co-product ration contains over 50 percent less barley compared with the barley beef ration and 100 percent less blend when compared with the compound ration. The coproduct ration achieves the same DLWG as both rations and is between 38-56p cheaper per head per day. For a 200 head finishing unit, this equates to a saving between £76-£112 per day.

In the co-product ration the forage has been increased, thus utilising more milk from forage. Furthermore, both the soya and rape meal have been decreased which are both likely to have been imported. However, the most sustainable achievement is the significant reduction in the blend (parlour cake) used. ‘Cake’ represents the most intensively produced constituent to this ration. The co-product ration is also 69p per head per day cheaper than the traditional ration. This equates to a saving of £103.50 saved per day on a herd of 150 cows.

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When co-products are used in the diet of ruminants, they are incorporated into the ration to work alongside forage. Forage contributes essential vitamins and minerals to the animals’ diets and in turn contributes essential vitamins and minerals to consumers of ASF. These nutrients would be otherwise unavailable to the consumer. Furthermore, forage crops are

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Beef rations

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Co Products

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£2.15

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FEEDS Grass Silage CMP/BLE-Beef Finisher 14 Cooked Potato Chips (Duy B Grains (MF Carlsberg) Raw Potato Chips (Duynie Barley Soya Hipro Rapeseed (00) Ext Duynie Int Beef Co Prod Urea

10.0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

10.0 0 0 0 0 9.0 0.95 0 0.15 0.05

8.0 0 5.0 6.0 6.0 4.00 0 1.00 0.15 0

Total

20.0

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30.2

NUTRIENT ANALYSIS DMI (kg) Dry Matter (%) DM from forage (%) M.E. (MJ) M/D (MJ/kgDM) CP (%DM) NDF (%DM) ADF (%DM) Starch (%DM) Sugar (g/kgDM) Starch+Sugar (%DM) Calcium (g) Phosphorus (g) Magnesium (g) Iron (mg) Copper (mg) Manganese (mg) Cobalt (mg) Zinc (mg) Iodine (mg) Selenium (mg) Vitamin A (iu) Client: Vitamin D (iu) 650kg Holstein (iu) 35L Vitamin E

12.2 61.2 28.9 149 12.2 15.2 33.1 19.2 28.9 48.8 33.8 121.2 52.9 36.0 3255 118 977 2.17 416 4.8 0.32 87894 0 258

12.3 11.8 61.1 39.2 28.8 24.0 151 150 12.3 12.7 16.3 14.4 27.9 29.6 13.6 14.3 37.6 32.9 30.6 26.6 40.6 35.5 68.5 76.3 49.5 49.7 17.9 18.7 1927 2064 313 311 916 823 12.60 12.01 734 796 34.3 34.1 4.72 5.97 152048 131625 Adviser: 12000 12000 Duynie Ltd 523 10b Thunderhead 440 Ridge Unit Colorado Way These feeding recommendations are intended only as a guide Castleford and depend on the accuracy of the information supplied.

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Traditional

Co Products

£3.84

£3.15

FEEDS Grass Silage Maize Silage Brewers Grains Straw, Wheat Pressed Pulp Dr. Mol. S.B.P. Soya Hipro Rapeseed (00) Ext Wheat 11% Duynie Dairy GP Mins CMP/BLE-21%-12.5ME Yeasacc Farmpak Bread

17.0 17.0 0 1.00 0 1.20 1.20 1.20 2.50 0.15 6.0 0.50 0

20.0 20.0 7.0 0.50 7.0 0 1.00 1.00 0 0.15 2.00 0 3.50

Total

47.8

62.2

22.2 10.9 46.5 261 11.7 17.8 315 1146 2706 2333 374 49.1 36.8 22.2 107.4 24.2 3.48 35.2 35.7 1.66 28.4 439

22.1 12.3 35.6 260 11.8 16.0 93 1121 2472 2305 167 48.6 40.0 21.9 59.2 21.6 3.82 35.1 35.2 1.66 31.7 390

COST

NUTRIENT ANALYSIS DMI (kg) Forage DM (kg) Dry Matter (%) M.E. (MJ) M/D (MJ/kgDM) CP (%DM) DCAB (mEq/kgDM) MPB (g) MPN (g) MPE (g) Excess MPN (g) %MPB of MPE NDF (%DM) ADF (%DM) Rumen Stability Starch + Sugar (%DM) Oil (%DM) YieldME YieldMP Feed Conversion Efficien % Protein Capture in Mil Manure Nitrogen Output (

These feeding recommendations are intended only as a guide and depend on the accuracy of the information supplied.

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nitrogen fixing, O2 emitting, and CO2 absorbing. They also have many properties, which improve soil health.

In dairy rations co-products are used to promote yield from homegrown forage and minimise the use of intensively produced compound feeds.

Co-products come in many forms. Moist and liquid co-products are used with the primary aim to improve the palatability of a ration, driving intakes of homegrown forage. At the same time as achieving the above, co-products balanced correctly in a ration improve feed efficiencies and total farm sustainability.

Dr Anne Mullen from Teagasc Food Research Centre delivered a presentation at the International Congress of Meat Science and Technology.

The main point highlighted in the presentation was the increased demand for protein rich food, with emphasis on the requirement for new and alternative protein sources as well as optimising output from existing resources.

Overall, the presentation highlights the potential for enhanced economic performance from the utilisation of co-products.

At Duynie, we look at each farming system individually and assess the needs of each farm on a case-by-case basis.

We only use co-products that compliment what the farm already grows which cannot be used to directly supply the human food chain.

Currently over half the cereal crops grown globally are used directly to feed livestock. This is both unsustainable and unnecessary.

It is possible within the UK to feed ruminant livestock on forage-based diets and supplement with co-products, whilst at the same time improving on-farm efficiency and increasing the amount of cereal crops grown directly for human consumption.

Reducing the amount of land used for growing cereals for livestock feed is a key area of concern when addressing how we can be more sustainable.

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Our motto is “Think Global, Act Local”.

Due to the nature of co-products, we aim to keep haulage from supplier to customer as short as possible, with our company objective of an average of less than 50 miles.

This work enables us to keep the price down, improves community awareness and understanding as well as reducing the CO2 e-footprint of our partners and ourselves.

Brewers Grains, like the vast majority of co-products are delivered directly to farm, without the need of any further processing, which significantly reduces the CO2 e-footprint of the product.

Duynie, as co-product specialists and experts in our field, aim to achieve partnerships with suppliers and customers, with our long-term objective to be an irreplaceable link in order to achieve a ‘Circular Economy’.

Brewers Grains are a nutritious and palatable feed that can reduce cross species competition for land and food, whilst promoting yields, and at the same time decreasing the negative effects on the globe associated with livestock farming.

In short, Brewers Grains are one type of many co-product feeds, which have the ability to improve productivity, reduce feed costs and most importantly improve the sustainability of your farm.

Feeding co-products is the future, and the future is now.

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Fishmeal, fish oil and “The Need for Feed”

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by Neil Auchterlonie, IFFO

t is stating the obvious to say that the use of fishmeal and fish oil in aquafeeds has changed over time.

With high inclusion rates of fishmeal and fish oil common in early modern aquafeeds, and especially those for salmonids, these materials could be regarded as the foundation of fed aquaculture as we know it (Auchterlonie, 2016).

The provision of diets that met the farmed fish nutritional needs essentially freed up the industry to develop systems technology and health controls therefore making the advances in the volume of production that was required to achieve viability.

Inclusion rates seen with those early diets were 90 percent or more for total marinesourced materials (Ytrestøyl, Aas, & Åsgård, 2015), and this was only feasible when the aquaculture industry was of relatively small volume. Over time the partial substitution of marine ingredients with those of other (terrestrial, mainly vegetable but some animal proteins) origin occurred to allow a continuing supply of feed to aquaculture within a global market. The challenge was in meeting the volume of supply required for the developing aquaculture industry.

There is an economic consideration too, that emanates from the volume of supply point. Although marine ingredients may appear as higher cost compared to the alternatives in the market, it is simplistic to look at feed ingredients from solely that perspective as bioeconomic models have a great deal more complexity, and feed formulations are not all about price – the performance of the material needs to be taken into account. This has already been shown with fishmeal in respect of feeds for weaning piglets (Ma et al., 2013) where the growth and health advantages of high quality fishmeal in those feeds provide benefits that extend across the whole production cycle. The same may well be true for fish species. (Interestingly, it is the comparative cost of marine ingredients that provides the financial attraction from the investment sector that supports the development of alternatives, as discussed in Naylor et al. (2009) who describe the situation thus: “price signals will provide the best inducement for technological and management change”, even if – nutritionally - those alternatives are generally quite different to fishmeal and fish oil.)

Aquaculture is the most successful protein sector in recent times, and – generally is an efficient way of producing protein for humanity largely as a result of growing cold-blooded animals in an environment that supports their body weight. Aquaculture development has been dramatic and now accounts for 44.1 percent of total seafood production (Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2016). This development will continue and forecasts for growth remain high even though the rate of growth has slowed from 7.2 percent over 1995-2004, to 5.8 percent from 2005 to 2014. Regions or countries are developing aquaculture strategies, within often sit growth targets, and although fed aquaculture is only part of the total figure (FAO estimates this at 69.2 percent, some of which will also be extensive production (In extensive production feed inputs may be provided to the farmed stock, but that is not the only source of nutrition, and external food items from within the farm environment may also support growth.)), it is clear that there will be a continuing demand for increasing aquafeed volume for some time to come.

Alternative proteins and oils have been suggested for many years and other than the obvious replacements that have already occurred with vegetable-based ingredients, for the most part the commercial reality for many of the alternatives still seems some way off. At the current time, the key issue for supporting aquaculture development is to continue to make the best use of the fishmeal and fish oil resource we have.

Fisheries supplying fishmeal

In a normal year global supply of fishmeal is in the region of five million tonnes, with an additional one million tonnes, or just under, of fish oil. Annual variation occurs due to the fluctuations of supply around the main fisheries that provide the raw material for the fishmeal production process, the most important of which is that of the Peruvian anchovy 72 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

F (Engraulis ringens).

Environmental fluctuations can have an impact on stock levels, where changes in current speed, direction and water temperature may affect primary production and the timing and matching of larval fish with prey items, consequently affecting recruitment into the fishery. It has been widely accepted for years that El Niňo events have an impact on the productivity of the South Pacific Ocean (Schreiber, Ñiquen, & Bouchon, 2011), and these can markedly affect the biomass of the Peruvian anchovy, a stock which contributes somewhere between 15-20 percent of raw material supply for fishmeal and fish oil manufacture.

The Peruvian anchovy is an excellent example of a small pelagic fish species of the type that provides the majority of the whole fish for fishmeal and fish oil production. Small pelagic fish (SPF), also known as forage fish, comprise approximately 22 percent of global annual catch according to the FAO. Examples of these SPF species are the anchovies, sardines, pilchards, herrings, capelin and menhaden, also known as Low Trophic Level fisheries on account of the position they hold within the ecosystem. Stocks can show a high variability linked to environmental factors including the vulnerability of planktonic early life-stages and their recruitment (Ospina-Alvarez et al., 2013), but in general are more readily modelled and managed than many of the food species fisheries.

Typically, these are single-species stocks that mature early, and have high fecundity, so when the environmental conditions are optimal they can reach very high abundance levels.

The management of SPF fisheries has been at the centre of some controversy in recent years. A scientific report published in 2013, commissioned by the Lenfest Ocean Program, “Little Fish, Big Impact” suggested a precautionary approach to the management

of SPF stocks to allow for the needs of piscine, avian and mammalian predators in the ecosystem. This work was based on the use of ecosystem models that had previously been used in the terrestrial environment. There is now some scientific debate about whether the methodology in the report is valid, and other authors have recently challenged the assumptions of the original work (Hilborn, 2017).

The more recent science suggests that there is “little evidence for a strong connection between forage fish abundance and the rate of change in abundance of their predators”.

It seems that environmental factors, rather than fishing pressure, are the dominant factor in abundance, and we may expect continuing scientific effort on the subject, which will hopefully improve the predictability of stock management. That predictability should remove some of the uncertainty in stock modelling and management. Providing additional evidence that tackles a general precautionary approach, improves the accuracy of TAC and quota setting, which in turn has the potential to improve the productivity of the SPF fisheries. That improved productivity of SPF fisheries subsequently supports protein supply and the global food security agenda.

SPF fisheries are therefore, on the whole, comparatively easier to manage than mixed stock (food) fisheries. In this respect, there has been a strong adoption of certification in the fishmeal industry, to the extent that over 45 percent of global supply is independently accredited to the IFFO Responsible Supply standard.

The trend is continuing upwards as this proportion is increasing year on year with interest from new fisheries and the adoption of IFFO RS Improvers Programme (IP) projects and other Fisheries Improvement Project (FIPs). Also noteworthy is the ability of

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For a variety of different reasons, these stocks have only very limited, or no, direct human consumption markets so, despite the criticisms of some authors (e.g. Cashion, Le Manach, Zeller, & Pauly, 2017) about a direct consumption loss they may very likely make much more of a contribution to global protein supply as feed materials for food products that have a real market demand.

Increasing raw material supply from by-product

The world’s global supply of fishmeal is not produced solely from fisheries though, and there is another segment that contributes a smaller but important volume. A significant, and increasing proportion of annual supply now comes from the processing of seafood by-product, where frames, heads, viscera and other trimmings are used to produce marine ingredients.

The FAO estimates that somewhere between 25 percent and 35 percent of global fishmeal supply comes from this material at the current time (Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2016), and that is clearly an efficient use of material for which other uses are relatively restricted.

An IFFO-funded project, reporting in 2016, suggests that there is a significant volume of by-product raw material that at this stage is uncollected and therefore not utilised (and very likely going into waste streams). Current estimates are that globally another 11.7 million tonnes of raw material is available, equating to another 2.365 million tonnes of fishmeal and 352,000 tonnes of fish oil if it could be collected and processed (Jackson and Newton, 2016).

With the growth in aquaculture having the potential to supply even more by-product material, this could actually increase through to 2025, to a volume of 45 million tonnes available raw material from the current total of 35 million tonnes potential (In fact, something like 20-22 million tonnes is processed into fishmeal and fish oil every year).

Fishmeal – more than just protein

This volume is a comparatively limited supply of fishmeal into aquafeed (as an example, 348 million tonnes of soya bean is the USDA’s estimate for production over the period between June 2017 and June 2018; soybean meal accounts for 35 percent of the weight of raw soybean, which equates to 121.8 million tonnes; therefore, the volume of fishmeal produced equates to 4.1 percent of total soya volume). It is a low volume, but high value ingredient, with a price that reflects the nutritional importance of the material in feed formulations.

Although fishmeal is a high protein (60-72%) ingredient, its value comes not just in the provision of protein as a macronutrient for growth (although it is important for that based on high digestibility figures). Fishmeal has an excellent amino acid balance, obviously reflecting directly the amino acid balance in fish, and therefore very similar to the needs of carnivorous species, which have evolved over millenia to utilise proteins with amino acids, found in these proportions. It is therefore not surprising that it meets the nutritional requirements of carnivorous species directly.

It is not, however, merely the amino acid balance in fishmeal that is of benefit to farmed fish species. Fishmeal is exceedingly rich in some of the minerals and vitamins that are known to be 74 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

essential for fish nutrition and health. Many of the vegetablebased competitor ingredients from terrestrial systems do not contain these compounds at the same levels, largely because they reflect a plant’s (and consuming animal’s) physiological needs in the terrestrial environment. Those requirements are different, and that is a function of evolutionary biology. Other aspects of the vegetable-based material include the presence of substances known as anti-nutritional factors (ANFs), again a reflection of plants operating in an environment where they were at risk of being consumed by herbivores – those compounds being a protection against being eaten.

Plants also contain fibre, carbohydrate and other compounds that cannot be utilised by many carnivorous species. This results in the use of processed and concentrated material, such as soy protein concentrate SPC, with the processing of the raw material carrying an additional energy cost (and diets made predominantly with this type of material may also require specific amino acid supplementation in formulations for an individual farmed fish species).

The nutritional quality of fishmeal has been known for many years and its richness as a source of vitamins and minerals, and their nutritional role for farmed animals well documented (Windsor and Barlow, 1981). Fishmeal is rich in vitamins such as the B-group vitamins, especially choline and niacin, and it is also rich in various minerals important for farmed animal health including calcium, phosphorus, and also selenium. These micronutrients are not only important for the physiology and health of farmed animals, but are important nutritionally for the consumer as well. Fish oil, also, is usually present in fishmeal, in the polyunsaturated form and with global supplies being limited this contribution is accounted for in feed formulations. Often rich in the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the levels are variable depending on the source species (Cho & Kim, 2011). At an overall fat level of eight-12 percent in a standard product, fishmeal is a rich source of these materials (Windsor and Barlow, 1981), and the contribution from fishmeal is a significant proportion of the supply into aquafeeds.

Fish oil – benefits for farmed fish as well as the consumer

There are a whole host of scientific publications on the benefits of fish oil to human physiology, with a range of level of effects and outcomes cited for a wide variety of conditions. We also know that although some freshwater fish species are capable of “bioconverting” shorter chain fatty acids into the longer chain EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids (Turchini, Torstensen, & Ng, 2009), they are essential nutrients for marine fish species (Sargent et al., 1999), including salmon.

There is therefore a strict nutritional need to provide these materials into salmon and other feeds. With fish oil only being the available source that currently meets the volume requirement, the drawdown is reflected in the IFFO annual statistics which indicated that in 2015 73 percent of global fish oil apparent usage (total 916,000 tonnes) was directed to aquaculture, and 58 percent of that fraction was taken by salmonid feed.

Naylor et al. (2009) discussed the supply of fishmeal and fish oil into aquafeeds to meet the demand of a developing industry, and concluded that although there is pressure on both materials it is that for fish oil which drives the pressure on raw material availability. We are seeing in some instances, and especially with farmed Atlantic salmon that the omega-3 content of the fillets reaching the market is reducing as a consequence of lowering inclusion rates in feed (Sprague, Dick, & Tocher, 2016). That

F is for salmon produced on standard feeds, and it does leave the pathway open to those producers who may wish to diversify into premium products with higher EPA and DHA concentrations.

How feed tastes to the animal, and its relevance to production

An important but often overlooked factor in the development of aquafeeds is the palatability of the pelleted feed to the farmed fish. This is an essential factor in appetence and feed intake volume, and therefore has an effect on overall fish growth and production.

It can also be of primary importance in key juvenile stages where there may only be a short window of time to get juvenile fish onto feed. Fishmeal is recognised as being important in farmed animal nutrition and production of pigs (Dong & Pluske, 2007) and poultry (Karimi, 2006) in the juvenile stages, where it has been successfully used on a strategic basis to get the younger animals onto extraneous feed. In those industries the use of fishmeal to improve production efficiency in younger animals makes economic sense (Ma et al., 2013), despite the higher cost of the ingredient when compared to other available feed constituents.

In fish, similar effects have been observed. (Enes & Peres, 2015) describes this concept and (B. Glencross, N. Rutherford, 2011) suggested a threshold for fishmeal in feeds for barramundi of 15 percent to avoid any problems linked to inappetence. Some other species such as gilthead sea bream have shown similar responses (Kissil, Lupatsch, Higgs, & Hardy, 2000), but in some trials other species such as Pacific white shrimp (Samocha, Davis, Saoud, & Debault, 2004) and Atlantic salmon (Refstie, S.,

Storebakken & Roem, 1998) have not shown the same response.

It appears that this is a topic that requires further investigation, although it is quite clear that fishmeal with the presence of numerous different compounds including some volatile organic compounds has at least the potential to be an attractant and improve palatability. The non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid, has been identified as one of the compounds that supports fishmeal palatability for aquafeeds (Miles & Chapman, 2015).

Summary

It is clear that the contribution that fishmeal and fish oil has made to global aquafeed has been substantial and, in the past, has certainly provided the foundation for modern fed aquaculture production systems. In real terms, the successful aquaculture industry we have today would not have occurred without the contribution these materials made to aquafeed. Contemporary systems have changed, however, and with the onus on feed supply more about achieving volumes, the use of marine ingredients is shifting to points in the production process where their nutritional advantages may be best utilised.

The benefits of marine ingredients go well beyond the provision of crude protein and fat for farmed fish diets and the range of micronutrients found in the materials is important for production, for health, and for the quality of the end product in fed aquaculture. As a strategically important ingredient already increased proportions of fishmeal and fish oil are seen in juvenile feeds compared with grower diets, and these materials also have a contribution to make to broodstock diets along with the implications that has for the successive generation.

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Introducing the Continuous Dryer MkIII Energy-saving drying concept that delivers improved drying performance

by Geelan Counterflow

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n extruded product manufacture, the dryer is both the main consumer of energy and a crucial quality factor. Geelen Counterflow has completely redesigned its Continuous Dryer to satisfy the requirements of companies that want to produce high-quality extruded products efficiently and at the lowest operational cost.

Counterflow technology delivers energy savings of at least 20 percent

The Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen Counterflow dries extruded products in the feed and food industry by passing hot air through one or two layers of product. In Geelen’s system, wet product from the extruder is continuously added to the top of the product beds. At the same time, dried product at the bottom of the product bed is discharged in small quantities to the next drying stage or to the hopper.

Geelen has developed a sophisticated automatic control system for drying the individual recipes according to product-specific process parameters such as air volume, air temperature and residence time. The Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen dries extruded products with great uniformity. The drying is very homogeneous, resulting in a guaranteed moisture uniformity of +/- 0.5 percent.

Non-saturated air is recycled. Only a small volume - the fully saturated air - is exhausted. The refined counterflow heat exchange design makes the Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen at least 20 percent more energy-efficient than the best alternative in the industry.

More homogeneous product quality during start-up and shutdown

Optimum distribution of the product in the dryer is one of the most important factors for achieving a homogeneous drying result. Consequently, the product distribution system has been completely redesigned in Geelen’s new Continuous Dryer MkIII. The upgraded control system now automatically keeps the product bed at the right height for each product.

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The new product distributor, which flexibly follows the movement of each product layer, plays an important role here.

The ability to control the residence time during production process start-up and shutdown is a further innovation. This eliminates product clumping and inconsistent product quality at the beginning and end of the production process.

Finally, the improved airflow results in more homogeneous air distribution. This improves the drying result, making it possible to achieve a product uniformity +/- 0.5 percent. The new Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen is equipped with a number of features, which improve hygiene, convenience and speed when cleaning. For example, the discharge system is more accessible.

The interior now features easily cleanable walls and smooth curves in areas where dirt and product residue can accumulate.

Long-term product quality, efficiency and safety

The new Continuous Dryer MkIII is suitable for energy-efficient drying of extruded products across a capacity range from one to 10 tonnes per hour. Geelen Counterflow has its own R&D Department where all its products are designed and developed.

Geelen’s dryers are designed in a way that minimises the number of moving parts. The stainless steel bodies are double-walled, with fireproof insulation material in between the walls. Geelen’s dryers are sold with a 10-year service contract as standard to keep product quality, efficiency and safety at a high level.

More information about the redesigned Continuous Dryer MkIII is available from www.geelencounterflow.com.

About Geelen

Geelen Counterflow is the inventor of the Counterflow Cooler and Counterflow Dryer and global market leader in this segment, with equipment operating in more than 100 countries. Geelen is committed to achieving the highest food safety standards, best energy efficiency and lowest Total Cost of Ownership. The company strives to minimise its environmental footprint. Geelen Counterflow is based in Haelen in the Netherlands, and has service and sales offices in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

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Flow measurement

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by Eastern Instruments, USA or quite a while now, the choices for solids flow measurement devices for the milling and grain industries have fallen into two main camps; the flow meters that are relatively inexpensive but whose accuracies leave much to be desired, and the flow meters that are extremely accurate, but whose prices can be hard to justify, especially when viewed in the context of the cost of the products being measured. Depending on the application, one or the other of these types of flow meters have their place, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine which direction to go. As with all choices, the decision to opt for an accurate, or alternatively, an affordable flow meter comes with consequences that can affect the way your process operates and that ultimately, can affect your bottom line.

Let us examine this choice between accurate flow measurement and affordable flow measurement and within the context of this choice, we can also examine a new flow measurement solution on the market that may change the way this choice between accuracy and affordability is made.

Accuracy as a determining factor

The accuracy of your flow measurement and equivalently, the efficiency of your process, is key to controlling costs and monitoring expenses within your operation. The most effective way of monitoring and controlling costs is to understand what is occurring within your process so that it can be optimized. Ideally, that means measuring the input and output of each minor process to understand, for instance, the optimal settings for your mill or your dryers or the best ratio for mixing ingredients. Subsequent to dry bulk solids being such an integral part of the milling and grain industry, being able to accurately measure them is critical to the efficiency of their processing. Such is the case with many parts of modern industrial processes, however, the accuracy of your flow measurement devices is most important when actual money is on the line.

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Receiving product during load-in is a great example of this.

As product is received it is typically purchased and billed for by weight. With an inaccurate flow measurement, or even worse, no flow measurement at all, you may have no way of verifying the amount of product that you are receiving. Utilizing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;take their word for itâ&#x20AC;? approach may very well leave you with less corn or grain than you are being billed for and may leave you paying more for the product that you have, than you should be. An accurate flow measurement of the incoming product helps verify what you are receiving and allows for control of the cost of your incoming grains, thus lowering the cost of your overall process. As a result of the accurate measurement of your incoming product directly correlating to savings within your process, the accuracy of the flow measurement at this location is rather important and may warrant the expense of a more accurate flow measurement. Conversely, the cost of an inaccurate flow measurement device will be seen directly on your bottom line.

Another example of where accurate flow measurement is important is during blending or mixing. Many processes combine different types of grains together for special blends of milled grains or flours. Controlling these blends can be critical to the consistency and quality of your end product and so having an accurate flow measurement for each of the individual ingredients is crucial.

Obviously, the more accurate the flow measurement of the individual products, the more accurate and consistent the end product will be. For particularly expensive products, accurate flow measurement is even more important. No one wants to use more expensive product than necessary within their blend or batch as the cost of doing so can add up quickly. However, by accurately measuring the amount of particularly expensive products that are being blended into your end product, you can better limit its use, or rather over use, thus limiting the cost of producing your end product and drastically reducing the waste of your expensive ingredients in the process.

Finally, the measurement of your finished product, whether milling grains into flour, cleaning seeds, or making feed pellets

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F from raw grains, is just as important as measuring your incoming product at the beginning of the process. Measuring your finished product provides insight into exactly how much product your process can produce. Arguably just as important however, is the added benefit of being able to compare the two measurements (the measurement of incoming products and the measurement of outgoing products) as a way of gauging how efficiently your entire process is running. Changes in these measurements can signal process concerns such as breakages in equipment or wear issues.

Cost as a determining factor

Accurate flow measurement, as the above examples show, can result in an increase in your process’s efficiency, which will lower your production costs and will directly impact your bottom line.

There are times, however, as you delve into the specifics of how this accurate flow measurement can be implemented, or more importantly, how much this accuracy and efficiency will cost, that the viability of an accurate flow measurement may seem unrealistic.

While high accuracy and efficiency may be a desire in most situations, it may not be practical in all of them, especially when the product being measured is inexpensive or more importantly, when the cost of inaccuracy is extremely low. In such cases, if a flow meter is chosen at all, then the cost of the equipment becomes a major determining factor.

An application where the accuracy of a meter’s flow measurement may be less important than the meter’s affordability, is when flow meters are used to verify the proper function of particular pieces of equipment within a process. In many instances, for example, stoners, rolling mills or separators work most efficiently when they work within a particular range of flow rates. By measuring the flow of material into and out of that piece of equipment, the optimal flow range for that piece of equipment can be maintained, thus ensuring that it will function at its most optimal level. This is particularly useful when talking about equipment such as dryers that will change the physical properties of the product that is run through them.

As grains move through the drying process, moisture is removed, and the result is a loss of mass. A good way of ensuring that the dryer is working as efficiently and consistently as possible is to measure the product both entering and exiting the dryer to ensure that the moisture loss (and thus, the drying process) is consistent over time. If the comparison of the intake flow versus the exit flow from the dryer is inconsistent, that may be a signal that the dryer is working incorrectly or that there is a problem with the process. Because most equipment works best over a range of flow rates (and not at a specific flow rate), the accuracy of the flow meters monitoring each piece of equipment need only be good enough to maintain the flow rate within the specified range. In such a case, an extremely accurate flow measurement may not be required and so the cost of the flow measurement device will be a much larger factor in the selection of the meter.

Important considerations

Another thing to consider when analyzing the cost of a meter is how extraneous costs, or costs other than the actual meter cost, can affect the overall expense of a process. For example, while the upfront cost of a flow meter may be quite low, low accuracy in the flow measurement can keep your process from running as optimally as it might when using a more accurate flow measurement. The costs that might be saved through the use of a more accurate meter can make less expensive low accuracy flow 82 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

meters much more expensive to utilize in the long run.

Moreover, a meter’s maintenance costs can be a big contributor to a meter’s overall cost. Meters that are highly mechanical in nature may require more part replacements, more down time and more labor in repairs and maintenance than a meter that utilizes no moving parts. Frequent calibration can be another source of added labor costs, especially if the calibration procedure is onerous and time consuming or if it requires trained personnel or specialized equipment.

All of these considerations can add up to be costly and expensive and have the potential to turn low cost flow measurement devices into a leech on resources. Conversely, an initially expensive meter may have exceptional accuracy. If the meter’s accuracy is coupled with low maintenance costs, minimal calibration requirements and few spare part requirements, this accuracy can quickly add up to real savings over time.

Summary

While sometimes the choice between accuracy and affordability in the flow meter market is clear, other times it may not be as simple to decide on one or the other. Until recently, your choice has been quite cut and dry. You were forced to either choose accuracy or affordability and there was very little overlap between the two. If your process was to utilize accurate flow measurement, then you would be required to pay for the accuracy and conversely, if you decided to utilize a more affordable flow measurement device, you were forced to settle on a lower accuracy flow meter. Only recently in the field of flow measurement has this strict dichotomy broken down to allow for hybrid flow meters that offer both accuracy and affordability.

The BWS from Eastern Instruments, for example, combines the accuracy of gravimetric, centripetal force based flow measurement with the affordability of more cost-conscious solutions like impact meters. The BWS retains a typical accuracy of 1 percent on most granular solids that are able to flow. The CentriFlow® BWS Meter is rugged and can be installed nearly anywhere within processes to measure a variety of granular products such as grains, beans or pellets.

Typically installed after feed devices such as rotary airlocks, screw conveyors or bucket elevators, the BWS can also be directly mounted inline into pipes or chutes that are transporting product via gravity. The BWS is designed with simplicity in mind, thus ensuring that the meter is simple and easy to operate, but the streamlined simplicity of the design also allows for a lower price point. Featuring several options for flow surfaces, including Stainless Steel and ceramic tile lined flow surfaces for high wear applications, the BWS is perfect for measuring any granular, free-flowing solid. With low maintenance requirements, no moving parts and an extremely simple calibration procedure, the BWS blurs the line between accuracy and affordability and makes selecting a flow meter for the feed and grain industry extremely easy to do.

Industry Profile

MUYANG

50th Anniversary Muyang, which trades internationally as Famsun, celebrated its 50th anniversary as a global brand on October 20, 2017 in Yangzhou, China by presenting to invited delegates a forum on ‘Global Feed Processing and Animal Husbandry Industry Investment and Strategic Partnerships’.

The tone for the one-day forum (held for key customers, invited government officials and VIPs), was set by Muyang’s General Manager Mr Tianming Fan. He outlined the progress the company had made over the past 50 years and its future prospects that reinforce the company’s commitment to growing its customer base abroad.

He spoke of the ’call of the times’ that today involves the rapid development of Industry 4.0 and ‘IOT’.

“We have entered an era of boundary-crossing, openness and sharing in our industry. As a leader of an agro-farming equipment supplier, the brand Famsun is more inclusive and epochal and is more expandable in its connotation today as well as its extension,” he said.

“In our future we will be reaching many more sectors, joining up agricultural industrialisation from planting, grain and oil processing, breeding to food production – and becoming an industrial chain from field to table centered around a strong brand.”

He added that this is a call to all in China to enter the international market at a higher level.

“Based on the current situation of being ‘First in Asia – Second in the World”, Famsun aims to be one of the top three companies globally in terms of the future feed machinery market, where a more international styled brand is needed.”

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Above: Presenters and delegates taking part in the Muyang 50th Anniversary seminar includes from left (front row): - Han Jitao, Fan Tianming, Shao laimin, Roger Gilbert, Li Defa, Pramoth, Teh Wee Chye, Somsak, Tan Leong Chee (middle row) Dong Zhiling, Liao Fanghong, Cai Huiyi, Zhou Xiangshan, Somwang, Ren Weiqiang (back row) Wang Yanan and colleague, Ma Yongxi, Wang Jiangbo, Xie zhenhua, Huang Xiaoyang, Jiang Changyun, Panich

The outline for the company he put forward is based on the ability to supply full solutions in vertical integration in the agrifarming industrial chain, ranging from agricultural machinery and farm engineering, through silo storage, feed milling – horizontally incorporating specialised grain engineering and oils and fats engineering - to food engineering.

Muyang traces its history back to the late 1960s when China first entered the international marketplace in feed equipment manufacturing. Last year the company achieved contracts valued at almost US$755 million and now has an overseas manufacturing plant, four research and development centres outside China, 50 brand offices worldwide and sells products in more than 120 countries, with more than 6000 projects completed in 2016.

“2016 was the first year overseas sales exceeded domestic sales,” he told the audience.

“International export revenues increased by 20 percent accounting for over 60 percent of this country’s total feed machinery exports for the eighth consecutive year.”

He pointed to his company’s world-leading ‘superb technology’ products such as the pellet mill and its gearbox, hammer mill, mixer, dryer and automation systems plus the company’s aquafeed technology.

Twenty percent of the company’s workforce is in R&D. The average age of its workers is just 32 years; it has more than 100 experts working abroad in the USA, Denmark and other countries.

Forum contributors

Following Mr Fan, three invited guest speakers covered domestic, international and future industry topics.

The first two speakers provided insight into national advances in agriculture and an international perspective of where the feed industry should develop over the next three decades. The final presentation prior to a panel session, was a presentation on the way China plans to engage with countries that have less access to trade today, due to their location, through China’s planned ‘Road and Belt Initiative.’

First of the three to speak was Mr Jiang Changyun, deputy director of Research and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of Industrial and Technological Economics (NDRC), who reported on trends in Chinese agriculture and its livestock industry and progress of current programs underway.

Second was Milling and Grain’s publisher Roger Gilbert, who summarised his background of work as Secretary General for the International Feed Industry Federation from 1987-2010.

This was followed by an interactive forum, which allowed the 60 visitors present to ask questions of the panel about their presentations and also about the future of China’s feed industry. It was hosted by Mr Li Defa, the General Manager of the Chinese Feed Industry Association.

Belt and Road

The meeting also heard from Dr Yongxi Ma, who spoke on the progress being made towards a completed ‘Belt and Road’ project that links China to Europe by rail and circles back to China via sea trading routes taking in Italy, Greece, Kenya, India and Indonesia before connecting back to China.

The day finished with a ‘Thank-you’ Banquet at which featured world class Chinese acts included gymnastics, dancers, both traditional and modern, music and opera.

Overall this was a special day for the company’s staff, its key customers, and international guests and government officials.

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Highlighting the importance of hopper tanks and material management

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by Chief Agri

hief Agri originated in 1961 and has grown to offer a full line of grain and commodity storage, aeration and material handling products throughout the world. The success of our company is directly due to the strong relationships we have created with our customers. Listening to their needs has led Chief to design new and innovative products helping producers minimise their storage costs, protect the quality of their product and maximise the selling price of their commodities. Our very mission is to provide unparalleled personal attention to meeting the needs of our customers while treating one another with dignity and respect, thereby ensuring strength and stability in the ag industry.

We offer complete systems for grain storage, aeration and handling, but in this article we will highlight the importance of hopper tanks and material management. For a more detailed list of Chief products, visit us at agri.chiefind.com.

Chief commercial hopper tanks offer the same ease of installation and unparalleled strength found in the Chief commercial grain bin line. Engineered from the highest quality materials, they provide the long-term reliability and satisfaction our customers have come to expect from Chief. For wet holding, storage or load-out, Chief has the solution to maximising your storage dollar.

In order to do that, we have turned our attention to the design of our hopper tanks and bins and that is what really sets Chief apart.

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Exclusive exterior “W” stiffeners

Chief’s exclusive exterior “W” stiffeners are constructed to bear almost twice the weight of other stiffener designs. The plate-to-plate connecting system fuses the stiffener lengths and positively transfers the weight-bearing load down the stiffener column of the silo, while offering the same ease of installation and unparalleled strength found in the Chief commercial grain bin line.

Looking at the features of the stiffeners we can see that having a standard painted or optional hot dipped galvanised substructure with welded legs and ring beams means that a “Super Structure” is available for use in drive-under applications. G140 is only standard on the roof panels and is optional on the sidewall and stiffeners. Standard on the sidewall and stiffeners is G115. This also means that utilising a four panel per sidewall sheet design, the “V” rib roof provides standard peak load capacities of 3000 to 7500 lbs (1364 to 3409 kgs.). A 45° bottom hopper cone and a 16” (0.4064 meters) discharge opening are standard with Chief commercial hopper tanks and they are backed by a five year limited warranty.

At Chief, we understand that every material handling operation is unique. That is why we offer maximum flexibility, adapting to your specific needs for aeration, dryers, catwalks and towers, conveyors, elevators and handling accessories.

We also understand that when you decide to invest in your agri business, it should be for the long term. Chief products are built to meet or exceed industry standards, by using heavy-duty materials and with efficient designs to provide strong, reliable commercial performance you can rely on for years to come.

For optimum longevity, we offer fully galvanised material handling systems to withstand the most corrosive of conditions.

With the user in mind, all components feature rugged construction and are designed for easy maintenance.

Chief’s staff of engineers is dedicated to continually seeking ways to increase the capacity, efficiency and

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Material handling equipment

Head sections - For optimum durability, our crown-faced slide lagged or vulcanised rubber-lagged head pulleys are fabricated to the stringent standards of the mining industry. Laggings rated SOF (Static conducting, oil resistant and fire retardant). The staggered-head hood-to-housing connection forms a no impact transition and the discharge baffle is fabricated from UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight) plastic for extreme durability and spark resistance.

The urethane liners are constructed of 0.25” thick blue, wire backed, urethane, cut to fit and secured with heavy-duty flat head specific hardware. Lining options include inlet hoppers, discharge hoppers, and elevator head assembly. As well as this, ceramic liners for heavy duty use are constructed of 0.25” ceramic tile, tailored to fit the prepared surface area and are bonded to the steel with product specific adhesive. Lining options include inlet hoppers, discharge hoppers and elevator head assembly.

An explosion vent on the back hood side is provided for safety in case of unexpected combustion and no-tool inspection door provides easy access to the discharge throat of the bucket elevator head. A ball bearing or spherical pillow blocks help to withstand the most abrasive, corrosive conditions on all sizes of elevators.

All shafts are, at minimum, CR 1045 material, with UHMW shaft seals.

Trunking sections

Thanks to precision engineering and manufacturing, the end sections of Chief elevator trunks are perfectly aligned for an easy

and straight installation. Trunk sections are available with bolted flanged seams, which are bolted together at the factory to confirm straightness and compatibility.

A hinged inspection door lets you view the fill level of the buckets and the polyethylene buckets are standard, however, steel, stainless steel, urethane, nylon or vented buckets are optional. The 5’ (1524mm) or 10’ (3048mm) inspection sections have heavy-duty welded frames with removable panels, which means that it enables easy belt and bucket maintenance.

Alternately, models 42-20, 48-30, and 48-50 use 10’ (3048mm) inspection sections and all other models use 5’ (1524mm) inspection sections.

A single boot inlet is standard but lined boot inlets are optional urethane lined discharge hoppers are available for smaller models and standard on larger models. Additionally, a wide variety of painted or galvanised distributors are available with your choice of spout diameter, outlet quantity with wire or electric controls.

Guy wire packages are available to meet the specific size and discharge height of the elevator qne head service and distributor platforms are available for all bucket elevators. Finally, all ladder packages and platforms comply with OSHA standards and a lockable access door is added to all ladder packages

Bucket elevators

Chief bucket elevators combine safety and strength while incorporating easy and efficiency.

Manual take-up boot selections for standard for 30” pulleys and smaller: Unique hat section bottom panel located 2¼” (57.15 mm) above ground level prevents grain from standing in shallow water; multiple boot section inspection doors allow for easy maintenance; inspection doors provide access to the heavy duty

Double Shaft Paddle Mixers (DPMA) The Wynveen double shaft paddle mixers, realizes high mixing capacity with a relative small mixer content. The mixer has a mixing time, depending on the product type and quantity, from 30 to 60 seconds.

Features • Capacities available from 500 to 20.000 liters • Mixing accuracy of 1:100.000/C.V. < 5% • Short mixing time of approximately 30-60 seconds • Minimum filling degree will be 25% of the nominal content • Extra wide bomb doors.

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F Optional right hand drives can be specified at the time of order.

TEFC motors are standard.

Explosion proof motors are available for use in enclosed areas or other hazardous locations.

Standard paddles are constructed of UHMW plastic.

Depending on application, nylon paddles are available.

Horizontal Conveyors

drum or self-cleaning winged pulley and 45° clean-out sections on the end panels of each boot section are standard.

Heavy duty commercial elevator boot for standard 36” pulleys and larger: Welded and hot-dipped galvanised frame is constructed with structural angle support and ¼” plates; generous 4” clearance below the bottom plate allows for greater accessibility; rack and pinion clean-out doors provide easier access for cleaning the boot; the hand wheel can be moved to either side of the boot for added flexibility; spring-loaded cleanup safety catch keeps door securely open; side shovel pocket cover has a stainless hinge to prevent corrosion, and a weather and dust tight seal and a side shovel pocket makes it easy to feed loose grain that may have spilled around the boot area. The built-in grate helps to prevent foreign objects from being fed into the elevator

Chain/sprocket combinations

Chief’s chain/sprocket combinations are manufactured to offer optimum dependability.

Chief offers three standard chain/sprocket combinations: 81x and 81x HD - 2.61” (66.29mm) steel bushing roller chain comes with self-cleaning open barrel bushings to reduce material build up and prevent freezing. Secondly, cast iron sprockets are standard and cut steel and split sprockets are available.

The WH124 - 4.0” (101.6mm) welded steel chain is induction hardened for long life and is assembled with press fi t pins for installation and maintenance, the hardened flame cut split sprockets are standard. Whereas, WH132 - 6.0” (152.40mm) welded steel chain has a high working load for high capacity and long lengths in heavy duty en masse chain conveyors. Hardened flame cut split sprockets are standard.

Drive packages are available in Class I, II, or III with drives mounted standard on the left hand side.

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By using components fabricated to exacting specifications, your Chief chain conveyor will be easy to assemble and provide long lasting service. Idler return systems are used for smaller conveyors; rail returns are standard on 21” (533.4mm) and wider conveyors. Optional AR lined rails available for high use conveyors and for easy maintenance the bolt-on panel removes easily to lift out the shaft, bearings and sprocket as one unit. The intermediate seams have bolted connections with staggered bottoms to provide a secure joint without the need for welding; the result is a strong connection with superior corrosion resistance.

Reversing conveyors are available with carry back cups for full conveyor clean out and standard horizontal conveyors have chain take-up adjustment installed at the tail end unless requested to be installed at the driven end. The fixed ends and take-ups are powder coated for conveyors that are taller than 15” (381 mm) standardly and a telescoping take-up system uses a simple threaded rod for easy adjustment and secure locking.

Chief’s unique broad-throat opening between the start of the discharge and the sprocket allows for an unobstructed discharge.

All conveyers are shipped with required covers.

Inline Conveyors

For difficult pit installation problems, Chief horizontal incline conveyers offer the solution.

Large profile UHMW paddles convey material in a center pan divided flow trough. Take-ups are located at the discharge end for easy maintenance and the tail section features a 45° sloped back panel to eliminate excessive material buildup and clean out.

An innovative, optional and adjustable telescoping center shroud controls material flow and can be user-adjusted depending upon grain conditions, whilst conveyors can be ordered with standard length or a shortened space-saving tail end. The standard incline conveyors have chain take-up adjustment installed at the driven end (unless requested to be installed) at the tail end.

Steady growth and diversification

Driven by its mission of providing customer satisfaction, manufacturing excellence, and strength and stability, has witnessed steady growth and diversification and we want that for our customers as well.

For more information on Chief Industries, Inc. and Chief Agri, please visit www.chiefind.com and agri.chiefind.com

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FLOW CONTROLLERS & MIXING

n agricultural scopes it is increasingly common to focus on mixing cultivation. In relation to pure seeds there are several advantages, e.g. prevention of massive pests and insect outbreaks, erosion protection, combination of similar sorts for crossings, balancing effects in case of changing weather conditions, efficient usage of nutritive substances or improved stableness during harvest period.

Generally, mixing cultivation lead to reduced growing risks and increase yield stability. Especially in biological cultivation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a growing agricultural sector â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sensible seeds blending can help to forgo usage of biocides. A good example for successful application of such blending is the combination of peas with oats or barley in the scope of feed crop cultivation.

Furthermore, blending of different qualities of one particular raw product is an important field of application. To reach optimum results in agricultural cultivation with blended seeds, it is important to dose the applied products, which has considerable influence on quality and earnings. Automatic dosing systems provide an efficient way to reach high-quality blendings.

The company FRIEDRICH electronic located in Lollar, Germany offers the Flow Controller FC3, which is a well-suited device for this field of application. It consists of an electrically driven flat slider with integrated weighing sensor and provides gravimetric dosage of grain, pulses and free-flowing products.

By linking of a number of Flow Controllers FC3 within a silo plant, a clearly defined seed blend can be created, which can instantly be used for cultivation purposes. Its very low installation height and flared pipe connections allow users to easily integrate the

Figure 1: The electrically driven flat slider Fc3 from FRIEDRICH electronic is well suited for blending of seeds and similar products.

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device under the silo bins.

Even in most existing plants the device may be integrated without difficulty. Furthermore the device provides useful measuring data, such as actual flow rate in t/h and total amount in kg. During dosing processes the integrated intelligent alarm-management-system of the flow regulator makes sure that faults are identified and captured instantaneously.

Despite its simplicity and convenience, this gravimetric dosing system reaches continuous target flow rates with measuring tolerances between 0.2-2.0 percent.

Compared to previous models FRIEDRICH electronic offers a new model, which has been developed in particular for dosage of seeds, providing avoidance of product residues within the device.

Furthermore the device is operated solely with electric supply; compressed air is not required.

Another usage of the FC3 is the exchange of outdated or defect weigh feeders, because the compact and flat design can easily be integrated under the silo outlet of most existing grain plants.

Within this perspective it is possible to upgrade older plants under low capital and labor investments, to reach higher efficiency and significantly extend service life. Application of the device of FRIEDRICH electronic also helps to reduce the maintenance rate, which has a positive effect on the whole production chain.

The dosing system is available in different pipe diameters from 120mm to 300mm, reaching flow rate ranges from 1-20 m3/h to 10200 m3/h. In addition to standard models, FRIEDRICH electronic offers individual customisations, which also contribute and support optimisation of processes and conveying lines in worldwide food and feed processing industries.

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Measuring protein in semolina flour and durum wheat Near Infrared Spectroscopy measures protein, moisture, oil, starch and fibre in flour, grains and oil seeds.

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by Phillip Clancy, CEO, Next Instruments, Australia

asta is made using semolina, which is coarse starch granules are the semolina. Grinding the semolina produced from Durum wheat. Measuring further will result in fine durum flour. Semolina is yellow and is the protein and moisture in the durum very free flowing as compared with normal flour. Semolina has wheat, the protein, moisture and ash in approximately 73 percent carbohydrates of which four percent semolina and then the moisture and protein is fibre, 12.5 percent protein, one percent fat and 12-14 percent in the pasta is the trifecta of measurements moisture. for the pasta industry.

Pasta is made as either fresh or dried. The group manufactures The issue has dried pasta in many factories around been that there the world. Pasta is made by mixing has not been a single NIR analyser water and semolina and then adding that is optimised for measuring egg, vegetable juice, herbs and materials in all these three parts of spices for flavour and colour. the process. Next Instruments has The dough is generally steam introduced the CropScan 3000F Flour sterilised and then rolled out into and Grain Analyser as a means of sheets for cutting or stamping, or the achieving this trifecta and providing dough is extruded through dies to pasta manufacturers with a total form the specific type of pasta. The measurement solution. dried pasta is then packaged. Fresh An international group of companies pasta is made either in a restaurant that specialise in pasta manufacture or at home. It is rolled out using a Figure 2a: Diffuse reflectance optics across the world have recently installed â&#x20AC;&#x153;pasta machineâ&#x20AC;? and then cut into Figure 2b: Transflectance optics the CropScan 3000F into six factories strips to be then boiled and eaten in the USA and Canada. This article within hours of making the dough. describes the system and how this Pasta can be manufactured using group is using it. other forms of flour. Likewise semolina can be used to make other food products including couscous, Breaking it down: Semolina and cream of wheat porridge, as a desert pasta with milk, in savoury dishes etc.

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Figure 3: Spectra of Semolina and Durum

Figure 4: Protein calibration

Figure 5: Moisture calibration

Figure 6: Ash calibration

can be easily formed into different shapes. Durum wheat is the “hardest” wheat available and does not mill easily. As such the semolina is coarse and when made into dough it does not form the “strong” gluten bonding that occurs with bread wheat flour.

This makes the dough more malleable and can be sheeted or

extruded. Durum wheat (Triticum durum) is the only tetraploid species of wheat used in the processed grain industry. Common wheats (Triticum aestivum L.) are hexaploid species and have a higher wet gluten content, which is important for developing strong dough that can support gas bubbles in bread. The optimum protein

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Figure 7- Protein in durum calibration plot

Figure 8- Moisture in durum calibration plot

Figure 9- Moisture in pasta calibration plot

Figure 10- Screen display for the CropScan 3000F

content of semolina is 12-13 percent for pasta production although higher protein content durum is used for unleavened bread and other food production.

Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Measuring protein, oil, moisture and carbohydrates using Near Infrared spectroscopy can be performed using either reflectance or transflectance optical systems. Figures 2a and 2b show the layout of the optical systems for reflectance and transflectance NIR analysers.

To measure powders such as flour or granulated semolina, both reflectance and transflectance NIR analysers can be used. However to measure whole grains of durum or any other grain, then a transflectance NIR analyser is the preferred system.

The CropScan 3000F Flour and Grain Analysers is a Near Infrared Transmission analyser that is suitable for measuring both powders and grains. NIR light is passed through a sample of either semolina or durum whole grains. As the light passes through the sample, energy is absorbed by the protein (N-H bonds), moisture (O-H bonds), Oil (C-H bonds) and carbohydrates (C-O-H bonds).

The light is separated into the NIR spectrum where a diode array detector measures the intensity of the light between 720 and 100nm. The amount of light absorbed by the protein, moisture, oil and carbohydrates are proportional to the concentrations of each component. Typical spectra of semolina and durum wheat are shown in Figure 3.

Calibration models that convert the NIR spectra to % protein and % moisture can be developed and once loaded into the CropScan 3000F provide measurements within 45 seconds.

Semolina can be measured using a 5mm deep rotating sample dish whereby 10 sub scans can be collected and the average spectrum used to predict the protein, moisture and ash content.

Durum wheat grains can be measured also using a 15mm deep rotating dish. 10 sub scans are collected and averaged in approximately 35 seconds.

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Pasta can also be measured using NIR spectroscopy however with so many variations in pasta, i.e. tubes, strands, twirls, etc, there is no one sample preparation method that can be used. Dried pasta can be placed in a food processor and pulverised into a fine powder or even a coarse granule. Alternatively pasta such as spaghetti, linguini, fettuccini etc can be cut to a specified length and packed into an elongated sample cell.

Calibration data

The CropScan 3000F was installed into six factories across the USA and Canada owned by the group, a Spanish company that specializes in pasta, rice and sauces. Samples of semolina were provided by each factory along with lab data for protein, moisture and ash. The samples were scanned on each of the six instruments and combined to develop calibrations.

Figure 4, 5 and 6 shows the calibration plots for protein, moisture and ash in semolina. It should be noted that NIR does not measure ash as a chemical entity. However NIR does measure the other components in semolina or flour, i.e. protein, moisture, oil and carbohydrates.

Ash is the residual components that are left after burning off the major components. Although NIR can be calibrated to ash indirectly, it is not as accurate as the ashing oven method. The NIR ash calibrations should be used as an outlier warning rather than a quantitative measurement.

NIR calibrations for durum wheat have also been developed.

Protein and moisture are the important components. Figures 7 and 8 show calibration plots for protein and moisture in durum.

Other components in durum can also be measured, i.e. wet gluten and vitreousness.

Dried pasta can be analysed for moisture. Although it would be possible to measure protein in pasta, it has little significance. If the protein in the semolina is correct and the moisture in the pasta is correct then by rights the protein should be correct. Moreover the manufacturers cannot change the protein content at this stage of the

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NIR analysers have been used in the milling industry for 4050 years. In the earlier days, the instruments were reflectance analysers whereby the grains were ground to form a powder, a sample cup filled and then inserted into the analyser.

Today, with NIR whole grain analysers, simply pour a sample of grain into a hopper and the grain drops through the optics and is collected in a tray at the bottom. The protein and moisture are measured in less than a minute. The downside of the whole grain analysers has always been that it is difficult to measure flour or powders such s semolina with the same instrument.

Several manufacturers of whole grain analysers, including Next Instruments, offer a flour module that uses a cell or a dish that is loaded into the analyser. Unfortunately the cells are static and cannot be rotated or moved to collect multiple scans in order to average the spectral data.

The CropScan 3000F provides a solution to this dilemma in that it is able to measure whole grains and powders by placing either sample type into rotating dishes and then scanning up to 30 sub scans of the sample. The whole grains are measured using a dish that is 15mm deep. The grains are simply poured into the dish, the excess scrapped off and the top flattened out. The dish is loaded into the sample drawer that is then pushed into the analyser. A gear wheel rotates the dish in the light beam. The NIR light passes through the sample and then is collected by the optics and focused into the diode array spectrometer. 10 sub scans take around 35 seconds and the results are shown to the screen in less than one minute. Semolina samples are measured in a 5mm deep dish. The semolina is spooned into the dish, the excess scrapped off and the dish loaded into the sample drawer.

In exactly the same process as is performed for whole grains, the semolina sample is rotated in the light beam. 10 sub scans take around 45 seconds. Figure 10 shows the screen display for the analysis of semolina and wheat samples run consecutively.

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WORLD FEED & GRAIN MARKET REVIEW

by John Buckley

In recent years the bellwether Chicago wheat futures market has tended to hit its seasonal lows in the late summer. This year has run true to form, prices bottoming out at just under US$4/bu in late August and since reviving into a range of $4.60/4.30.

Have wheat prices hit bottom yet?

Paris wheat futures which, in tune with the European physical market nowadays, tends to be heavily influenced by the Chicago trend, also hitting bottom in August in the low EU€150’s per tonne and since trading a rough €166/162 range.

That wheat has held relatively steady for many weeks now against a backdrop of further global crop increases is no mean achievement. But does it yet signal the five-year slump in prices of the grain could be nearing its end? The proximity of market returns to production costs for many producers – and the start of planting cutbacks in the US, Canada, Australia and other producers – may well be starting to signal that the decline has perhaps gone far enough.

Not that this has had much negative impact on total world wheat production so far. The latest increase in current season’s output estimated by the US Agriculture Department’s monthly ‘WASDE’ update include the EU itself - rising by about 2.5m tonnes to 151.5m, India – plus 2.4m, another 2m for Russia (83m) and 1m for Turkey (21m tonnes).

Canada’s crop was also raised another 500,000 tonnes last month. These gains far outweigh 1m taken off Australia’s crop, which USDA sees at 21.5m (though possibly still over-rating this as some other analysts go below the 20m level). Overall, world wheat output rose over the last two months by 7.1m tonnes to 752m, less than 2m below last year’s record high. It could even match or beat that number if the Russian crop keeps on rising. Some recent estimates for this have been well over the USDA number.

However, it’s possible that the more inflated forecasts are using ‘bunker weight’ yields – i.e. before the harvests are cleaned and dried. Also with Australia and perhaps Argentina at risk of further crop downgrades, the global number might yet be stretched to reach 750m tonnes.

There also remains some mild concern in the market about the adequacy of global supplies of higher quality milling wheat. Canada’s crop, usually a leader in the higher grades, has been getting some lower than expected protein results from the now almost completed spring wheat harvest.

However, that has been offset by reports that US hard spring wheat scoring higher on these important milling requirements. Another concern is the potential for a lower quality Argentine crop after suffering planting delays and too much rain.

In Europe, much of Germany’s usually better quality crop is below par this year. At this stage this seems more of a problem for exporters than domestic millers who will probably get first pickings from their own crop. The German market is also being distorted by strong demand for feed wheat, pushing the price up to and over that of milling wheat recently – which does not suggest the latter is running seriously short.

The German quality factor is, in any event offset to some extent by better French proteins which should enable the EU’s top wheat producer to meet more of the EU’s export demand, especially to its big traditional buyers around the MENA (Middle-East/North Africa) basin.

Overall though, demand for EU wheat from outside of Europe has been disappointing to date.

This is partly due to the German quality factor, partly to the euro currency’s recent remarkable recovery, making EU wheat more expensive on the world market. But perhaps above all, it is a reflection of the growing supply from Russia, with a record crop – and stocks – to dispose of.

The big question for the world market this autumn is - to what extent can Russia actually shift its increased supply onto world markets?

Certainly it seems to have got off to a brisk start with its 2017/18 export campaign, beating the opposition to many of the best and biggest deals to top buyers like Egypt – as well as developing further its business to new markets in Asia and other regions.

But analysts have been aware for some time that this burgeoning supply has been straining handling and other

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will drop by (a not insignificant) 6m infrastructure, growth of which has WORLD WHEAT OUTPUT tonnes, they will remain very high by lagged crop expansion considerably, (main producers, mn tonnes –source USDA/Milling) historical comparison. Canada and despite the investment of recent years.

USDA Aug Australia will also see some stock Shortages of rail cars and maxed-out 2016/7 2017/8 decline in their efforts to maintain loading capacity may cap this trade China 128.9 130 export market shares while smaller around the 33m tonne level forecast India 87 98.4 stockholders, including many by the USDA. That would still be Russia 72.5 83 importing countries, are expected a record level, 5.2m more than last to see an aggregate decline of about season’s. However, the crop is up by USA 62.9 47.4 5.5m tonnes in their inventories. around 10m tonnes while carry-in EU 145.5 151.5 The EU, in contrast should build stocks from last year have doubled, Canada 31.7 27 some stock going into next season as adding on a further near 11m.

Australia 33.5 21.5 this year’s bigger crop (+5.5m tonnes) In view of that, the wonder is that Argentina 18.4 17.5 is not matched by higher domestic Russian export prices were actually WORLD 754 752 consumption or export trade – the creeping higher for much of the last Consumption 740 740 latter so far falling sharply on the year. two months. However, that seems Carryover stock 256 268 Another slightly bearish factor is unlikely to last through the season the lack of growth expected in world as stocks build, straining storage wheat export trade. After two years of and putting domestic markets under steep expansion (averaging 10m tonnes increasing pressure. Bear in mind World corn production (update) (main producers, mn tonnes or 6% per annum) import demand is that Russia has ambitious plans to 2015/6 2016/7 2017/8 expected to stay flat in 2017/18. maintain – and grow – its cereal USA 345.5 384.8 370.3 Summing up, the wheat market production for the export markets China 224.6 219.6 215.0 may have priced in the known and it does not want its farmers extent of this season’s surplus, to lose heart while it makes the Brazil 67.0 98.5 95.0 so may not have much further necessary improvements in grain EU 58.7 61.1 59.6 to fall. Given the way funds and handling infrastructure.

Argentina 29 41.0 42.0 other speculators have sold down So while the Russian winter will Ukraine 23.3 28 25 the futures markets, this market probably slow things down over the Russia 13.2 15.3 15 is arguably exposed enough to next few months, expect the spring S Africa 8.2 17.5 12.5 prove sensitive to upside moves – thaw to see exporters pulling out all Mexico 26.0 27.6 26.2 especially if any major new weather the stops to shift as much grain as India 22.6 26.3 25.0 issues do occur. Global planted area possible. As well as facing an increase Canada 13.6 13.2 14.1 for 2018 will probably not reveal in the stocks of wheat it will carry WORLD 972 1,075 1,044 major changes – down again in into the next (2018/19) season, to over the US (offset by the large stocks) 17.3m tonnes, Russia might also be on Consumption 968 1,063 1,067 probably similar in the EU and the way to another huge crop in 2018, Ending stock 214 227 204 most of the former Soviet bloc. with no sign of a major cutback in this Distant futures markets continue year’s winter sowings (which were to the longer-term promise of some being wrapped up in late October). price recovery. CBOT December 2018 futures was recently Dry conditions in the south did earlier show signs of stressing offering a premium of 18 percent over the spot month and early plantings but rain has improved recently. There is always December 2019 almost 27 percent. But that seems optimistic the risk that Russia – Ukraine too - might get one of the regions (from a sellers’ point of view). This time last year the distant harsher than usual winters, a spring drought or a summer heat months on futures were about nine percent higher than they have wave. But until or unless something like that actually occurs, the actually turned out. Paris milling wheat futures also promise a world wheat market can probably expect Russian exporters to forward premium that expands over the coming two years, albeit continue setting a cheap baseline for prices. a much smaller one than offered by the US markets.

While world consumption forecasts for wheat have been raised by about 2.5m tonnes in the past couple of months, to a new Maize market absorbs plentiful supplies record 740m, the global market remains in clear surplus. The Maize prices have also been firmer than might be expected in estimate for carryover stocks at the end of the current season this second year of bumper US production, revived Brazilian has been raised by a further 5m tonnes since September and will output, sustained competition from former Soviet countries and be 11.5m tonnes greater than the already huge starting stock. It second largest producer China offloading some of its vast surplus should be noted that the biggest increase takes place more or less stocks, albeit containing their flow to its domestic market. ‘off-market’ inside China (+16m tonnes).

The bellwether US market did come under some further However, to that can be added the further 6.5m expected in supply pressure from the USDA making two surprise increases Russia (due to the factors mentioned above). While US stocks

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to its yield estimate for the current US crop. That has bumped up the crop number to around 370m tonnes – just 14.5m under last year’s record one (which pushed up US surplus stocks by 14m tonnes to its highest level for several years). US consumption is meanwhile expected to record an increase of about 4m tonnes this season while its exports are expected to drop by 7m tonnes from last year’s unusually high 55.5m (which was boosted by a temporary shortfall in rival exporter Brazil’s crop). That means US carryover stocks could be larger still by the close of the new season in September 2018.

Will the US crop actually be that large? Some recent trade reports initially suggested the USDA was over-rating yields with harvest running well behind normal and some highly variable results coming in. However, as this issue went to press, harvest was catching up and yield forecasts looking more viable, the odds remaining heavily stacked on a more than adequate US supply outlook.

Among the other major maize suppliers, Brazil has been predicted to grow another larger than usual crop (95m versus last year’s record 98.5m tonnes). Again, as we go to press this is being questioned by some analysts. There are concerns that delayed soya planting in some areas could lead to lower than expected area of ‘safrinha’ or second-crop maize on this land. This is usually heavily oriented to the export market. Nonetheless, the overall crop is likely to be another big one.

Farmers in third largest exporter Argentina, on the other hand, continue to respond to the country’s recent introduction of more liberal export policies and are expected to raise output to a record 42m tonnes, enabling exports to rise from 23.5m to a new peak of 27m tonnes. Both the major Lat-Am producers have been accumulating stocks this year, adding to their potential export surpluses in 2018.

Less clear, though, is the role of the FSU producers whose recent harvests have been turning out lower than expected average yields – well down on last year’s. That may require some trimming of production – and export – assumptions for both (currently Ukraine is

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seen shipping 20.5m tonnes and Russia 5.5m, near last season’s level in total).

Europe’s maize crop has been a bit of a disappointment for the third year running, coming in under 60m versus as much as 76m in 2014. That may require an increase in EU corn imports from Ukraine and other suppliers.

China continues to auction off chunks of its huge reserve stockpile, estimated recently by the USDA at some 79m tonnes – almost 40 percent of the global maize stock. This tends to be regarded as an ‘off-market’ factor, mainly influencing Chinese prices. However, it suggests China’s import needs will remain light, even as its consumption continues to rise (China uses about one fifth of world maize supply).

Generally abundant supplies and the prospect of another large Latin American crop next spring put the onus on the US to adapt its supply – that is, to make some acreage cut next spring.

Certainly the lower prices received by US farmers over the past couple of years seem to be flashing farmers an amberm if not red, signal. Much depends too on what corn’s main rival for land, soybeans, offer price-wise in the months ahead. At this stage, with soya forward premiums weak, some analysts say they’re not convinced US maize producers will make much of a planting reduction.

Short of a major surprise on the demand side (unlikely), the maize market over the next few months will be heavily influenced

by Latin American weather, then by US planting signals. For now, though, the price outlook looks fairly flat.

Oilmeals soya continues to lead expansion Like the grains, soya prices have remained fairly resilient to large surplus supplies, the US market even coming up from its harvest lows in the US$9.20’s per bushel (about $338/tonne) near to US$10 ($367/t) recently.

The USDA surprised the markets over the past couple of months, keeping its domestic crop estimate at a record 120.4m tonnes despite lowering its yield projection in October – thanks to a hefty increase in its estimate of harvest acreage. So the US still has a huge supply to dispose of or store, especially when this year’s larger starting stocks (up by 3m to 8.2m tonnes) are tacked onto the total.

Not much change has been seen in global crush or import estimates, so ending stocks will continue to grow, in the US to 11.6m and globally from 96m to a new record 98m tonnes.

Argentine and Brazilian stocks are much larger than normal too, so both can continue competing with the US for export trade as the latter gets into its busiest post-harvest period.

Soya, as usual, takes care of the lion’s share of the coming season’s increase (11.8m out of the total 14.5m tonnes) increase in global oilmeal consumption, followed by cottonseed meal (+1.8m) and rapeseed meal (+1.1m). The coming season is also expected to see one of its faster years of oilmeal consumption growth, led by China (+5.5m tonnes), the US (+1.2m), Brazil (+700,000) and up and coming Vietnam (+450,000 tonnes).

Over the past month or two, soya markets have withstood pressure from a fast US harvest although there have been some mutterings about lower than usual proteins being found in the current crop. That obviously makes the meal content less valuable

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to compounders and could, if it proves typical, result in some diversion of importer demand for beans and/or meal from the US to Latin American suppliers.

Among the other major oilmeal sources traded in Europe, the main change has been some trimming of sunflower crop prospects in the former Soviet Union – Russia’s down from 11.5m to 11m, if still up slightly from last year’s 10.9m tonnes and Ukraine’s falling from 14m to 13.5m versus last year’s record 15.2m tonnes. It may mean less sunflower seed coming to EU crushers whose own crop is seen steady with last year’s around 8.7m tonnes. The other main source, Argentina, is expected to raise its crop from 3.4m to 3.8m tonnes, which may mean slightly larger exports of the seed, if not the meal.

With most of this season’s rapeseed crops now harvested, the world total estimate has remained fairly stead – about 1.8m tonnes up on last year’s, translating to about 900,000 tonnes of extra rapeseed meal. That will probably mean a little more used in the main consuming countries – China, India and Europe but, as usual, prices will be led by the dominant soya market. Soya accounts for about 55 percent of all oilmeals used in Europe, rapeseed about one quarter.

Soya and other oilmeal prices in the next few weeks and months will be dominated by South American weather and, moving into the New Year by early guesses as to what US farmers will plant next spring. At this stage, Latin American soybean production is seen down a bit from last year’s record high but Brazil and Argentina combined are expected to carry in about 10m tonnes more than last season, so their total supplies will actually increase (assuming crop estimates hold true).

On this basis, and with US stocks rising too, there remains nothing sinister on the horizon supply-wise to justify soya price increases – an outlook reflected in low forward price premiums on the futures markets.

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As an industry leader for feed additives, NUTRIAD was proud to be one of the sponsors of the renowned event. The event, that covered swine production, swine health management, feed additives, equipment and veterinary medicines, was attended by more than 4,500 delegates from over 20 countries.

China is the country with the world’s largest population. In order to feed all its citizens, China has become the world’s leading producer of animal feed and livestock products. Even though the feed volume produced in the first half of this year showed a slight reduction, experts agree that the short-term trend indicates further growth ahead.

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Jim Zeng, Nutriad sales manager, commented, “Nutriad wants to convey the message to the Chinese swine producers, that we want to work in close cooperation and harmony with them. Our solution-based programs bring opportunities for swine health, nutrition, production and feed safety.

We work closely together with industry professionals and producers around the world and use their input on needs, challenges and market to develop products that allow Chinese producers to improve efficiency and enhance feed & food safety.”

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LDEX Indonesia 2017, the third edition of International Livestock and Dairy Meat Processing, and Aquaculture Exposition, drew to a close last week having showcased 230 leading exhibitors from 34 countries and attracted 9,109 trade participants from 47 countries.

The specialist trade fair was represented by a variety of high technology, latest equipment and full business solution for Livestock and Aquaculture industries.

As there were interesting technology all areas on display, visitors were able to get hands-on experience of the latest in livestock equipment for farming and get new ideas to develop their business.

The value of the Livestock equipment industry will increase up to 10 percent of market value, and total value is estimated to be around 13.8 million USD after the exhibition.

Jointly organised by VNU Exhibition Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. and Federasi Masyarakat Perunggasan Indonesia (FMPI), our influencer partner in Indonesia, the general sentiments on the

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success of the exhibition were reflected in the strong levels of exhibitor and buyer satisfaction from the show floor.

This edition the top 10 of the visitors come from Indonesia (87 percent) and international visitors from China, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Denmark and more.

The top buyers come from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey. Now the retention rate of the rebooking from exhibition grow up to 30 percent.

Mr Edy Purwoko, President Director, PT. Ceva Animal Health Indonesia (Top Company in Animal Health Industry), commented, “ILDEX Indonesia 2017 is where you can find the best solutions for your business, meet the professionals and network with the experts/people from the industry. I think this year, the exhibition improve the number of exhibitors, which is good, every exhibitor will bring their own customers and they will also visit our booth. And we will exhibit here again next edition.”

He continued, “The great thing about the Hosted Buyer Program is that we can get information on people who are at the exhibition early on and to reach for the meeting, so we’re not wasting time when we come to Indonesia. The benefit from the programme is encouraging us to come during our busy schedule. We make our effort to come over here and meet all the players from the same industry in Indonesia in one place.”

Mr Taufiqurrahman Shamsuddin from Amanratabismi Company (Qualified buyer) remarked, “This is my first time in ILDEX Indonesia and I’ve got a good impression of all the dealers and installers doing the business here in the poultry business. I think it's a good opportunity for us to do some business here and to join the exhibition.”

Mr Hans Koornneef, Commercial Manager, Holland Heater (International visitor) In the last day of the exhibition, ILDEX Indonesia gave the awards “Outstanding Booth” to the exhibitors in four categories.

“The Best Performance” were awarded to the winners JAPFA, BIOCHEM and CEVA, while “The Favorite Stand” presented to ROMINDO, DSM and BIG DUTCHMAN. The winners for the third category “The Inspiring Stand” are BREDSON, GEMILANG and CJ. FAO received the “The Most Unique Stand” award which is the last category.

ILDEX Indonesia 2019 will proceed to its fourth edition on October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. The tradeshow, again, aims to become one of the leading exhibitions and conferences in Indonesia for International Livestock and Dairy Meat Processing, and Aquaculture Exposition.

The tradeshow will be focusing on Feed and Animal Health; Feed Milling and Farm Equipment; and Genetic, Breeding and Processing. It shows that the demanding of the exhibition space are grow up significantly. More than 30 percent of exhibition space is already reserved.

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JTIC2017

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he 2017 edition of the “Journée Techniques des Industries Céréalières” (Technical Days of the Grain Industries) took place in Paris from the 8th-9th November, 2017.

Held at the Paris Event Center, located near Porte de la Villette in the 19e arrondissement, the twoday show welcomed more than 120 exhibitors from the flour milling and bakeries sector, of whom 25 percent were international.

Milling and Grain were again exhibiting as media partners with a team of four who engaged with all aspects of JTIC. We had the pleasure of visiting industry leaders such as Bühler, Precia Molen, Lesaffre, Golfetto Sangati, Chopin Technologies, Perten Instruments, Morillon, Buisine (SEFAR) and many more.

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Industry events was particularly well received as well as our publications. We also met with Parantez Group for fruitful discussions about the Turkish industry.

To put the French grain market into a global context, France is the leading grain producer in the European Union and in 2013, it accounted for 22.2 percent of the European Union’s (EU) grain harvest with its land under cereal cultivation representing 16.3 percent of the EU 28’s total cereal land. In 2013, France was the sixth largest cereal producer in the world and fifth for wheat.

One of the show’s main attractions for visitors are the conferences it offers and this year there were two conference rooms also in the hall in order to host the six conferences and four technical solutions sessions.

Similarly to the previous edition, job interviews took place once again and were received with great success. On top of this and not to be missed was the JTIC Lab, which exhibited an array of innovative products and services

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that exhibitors were being promoted at the event such as Chopin Technologies’ brand new product the ‘Spectraneo’.

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During his opening speech, Xavier Bourbon, President of the AEMIC (JTIC’s organizer), explained that an audit was made through the last edition whereby the exhibitors as well as the visitors were questioned on potential improvements.

The outcome was that people are coming to JTIC to discover new products and services but also to learn about the grain industries. He also discussed various changes in the AEMIC’s team and thanked all of his team for their hard work in organising this year’s show.

The audit is specifically the reason why they decided to focus on delivering relevant and interesting conferences increasing from four last year to six this year. Presentations included talking about agro-ecology; this year’s wheat harvest and its quality; consumer habits and trends; as well as how the industry should appeal more to the next generation of talent and retain them.The other topics were brewing (wine, bread, beer); how to prevent insect and “Mifid2”; and new European regulation. The conferences had 110 | December 2017 - Milling and Grain

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JTIC Lab

The JTIC Lab was a very important part of JTIC, with a priority for innovation. Almost 20 products and services that have been developed to help the industry were presented in both French and English.

These included the EyeFoss, the first image analyser for grain trading by Foss; cricket flour and bread making machinery

by Chopin Technologies; an alternative solution against insects pests in stored grain by Neodis; and the bread-making glossary by INRA. Technical sessions also took place during the show which allowed companies to briefly (15 minutes) present their product/service and its multiple benefits.

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PART 2

I

IAOM MEA 2017 – The products and the people

by Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson, Milling and Grain

n 1896, The International Association of Operative Millers was founded. It is an organisation comprised of flour millers, cereal grain and seed processors and allied trades representatives and companies all devoted to the technological advancement of all of these sectors, all over the word.

IAOM has 16 districts around the globe, thus providing an international forum for networking, enabling the exchange of ideas, technical and educational opportunities, as well as the discovery of new products and services.

IAOM MEA equally has a lengthy history within the industry, with the first meeting taking place in March 1989. This meeting was attended by 15 millers, five mill manufacturing company representatives and four guest speakers, incredible really when you think what the event has become today. The attendee countries came from Bahrain, Syria, Kenya, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey and the UAE.

A follow up

In the last edition of Milling and Grain, Tom Blacker gave an overview of the whole event from where he was on the ground deep in the action of the conference.

He gave a brief overview of some of the incredible, innovative products that were on display there saying that, “Special products were being exhibited for the first time. Stif exhibited

Mr AlQasas is the Area Sales Manager at Haver & Boecker Middle East FZE, specifically working with Behn + Bates. Based in the United Arab Emirates Milling and Grain spoke to him at the recent IAOM MEA Conference and Expo 2017, where he shared his tips on getting and sustaining great business through shows such as this one.

Don’t put your customers in a box Layth AlQasas, Area Sales Manager, Behn+Bates, UAE We are a family-based company, in operation since 1887, with a long history in material handling, advertising and packing.

Behn+Bates produce food packaging for which there are special regulations and technical issues. We have a variety of machines and bags: the valve-bag machine; open-mouth machines; BB open bags; BE bags and paper.

We are very flexible and able to follow market demands and customer needs. We can provide either semi- or fully-automatic machines, depending on the customer.

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the NovaPorte® product for dust proof inspection doors.

Fawema introduced the innovation with a fine inner layer of the USA’s FDA-approved to all regulations of glue to seal 0.5kg to 5kg bags. The glue can be hermetically heat sealed, with the advantages of tamper-proof and dust-proof.”

He also described that, “Henry Simon had both a roller mill and colour sorter machine. Sangati Berga exhibited plastic sieve frames, which are stackable to be totally flush, which improves food safety and prevention of dust.”

Before finishing off by divulging that, “I-Grain were proud to be introducing the Toxi-Scrub® which provides the efficient removal of mycotoxins and fumonisins from raw materials such as grains and nuts. Many exhibitors brought fully operational products to show to delegates, which allowed for the tactile hardware to be examined and inspected. A symbol of the strength of any exhibition is the technology and it can be reported that this year the technology was at a very high standard.”

This issue we’re going to follow Tom’s product overview with a few first hand views and accounts of some of these products from the very people there, proudly presenting them.

You can also see our interview this month is with Dr Ali ElSayed Ali Al-Moselhi, who is the Egyptian Minister of Supply and Internal Trade. This provoking and in-depth interview is a real pleasure to bring to you, especially with our current focuses on IAOM MEA and for our final edition of 2017.

The Middle East is an important market for our parent company Haver & Boecker and also for Behn+Bates.

We generate lots of business here. There are approximately 50 Haver & Boecker subsidiaries, one of which is Haver Mill East, located here in the UAE, in Ras Al Khaimah. What’s important is that we follow the needs of the customer: which new products will best serve their needs and how can we improve in response to their feedback.

A most important aspect of selling a machine is what we do after the sale and we have maintenance and special engineering teams in place in Ras Al Khaimah to do this. This is what makes the subsidiary succeed.

We are not just putting the material inside the bags; we care about accuracy, for example - the shape of the bag. This is for the end user, the manufacturer but also for the cleaner, because food regulation standards are different from material or chemical ones.

Most millers coming to IAOM know what they want, they are professional and specialists and they know what they are talking about.

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Mr Haugh is the Vice President of International Sales at Global Industries. Global Industries Inc USA is a silo manufacturing company.

Milling and Grain spoke to him at IAOM MEA regarding the current state of markets in the Middle East and Africa and Global Industries plans for the future.

African steel for Africa John Haugh, VP International Sales, Global Industries We are very pleased to announce the opening of our new facility in Johannesburg, where we are producing pretty much the entire line of grain silos.

Its position in Sub-Saharan Africa allows us to capture the local market and avoid the hassle of importation from Europe or the States: you eliminate all the ocean time. We’re extremely excited about the prospects of what we can do there.’

‘There is a steel mill in Johannesburg in Arcelor Mittal, which is the world’s largest manufactures. They have a mill, they produce the coils to our specifications, so we’re able to get that local product and not have to ship the weight of that from the States. We manufacture the sidewall sheets and the stiffeners, the rough components, right down in Johannesburg and we do still import a few things from the States right now.’

This saves a lot of duties on the product and the local cost of production in Africa has been better than in the States. This opens up more opportunity for the States: the opportunity to explore different markets by reducing lead times during busy periods. What we’re doing doesn’t take business away from the US but adds to it.’

Global were acquired by AGI and became part of a group with a lot of silo manufacturing capacity; with plants in Europe (Italy), the US (MFS) and recently, Brazil.

So when we say that we’re Global, we are absolutely, truly global.

Talking about the company’s latest innovation that was on show at IAOM MEA, we spoke to Mr Ricardo Fontenelle, Technical Sales Consultant at Sangati Berga.

He divulges details on the specifications of the sifting equipment whilst proudly discussing the positive reactions from the stand's visitors.

New developments in sieve technology Ricardo Fontenelle, Technical Sales Consultant, Sangati Berga We are exhibiting a new model of sifting equipment, the main difference between this model and other models is the sieves are made completely of plastic instead of wood; the connection is made by a maze in the frame of the sieve itself. With this design you eliminate any connection point that could harm the food safety, like rubber, felt or gadgets.

Since they are all stackable and they fit together one on top of the other, any type of product from one screen won’t leak into the other. You won’t have any type of contamination problem (such as dust) or unwanted mixing of products.

We have a lot of mills in Brazil and Latin America in general, with this kind of equipment; they have been running for about two to three years without any problems. We also have a lot of requests from customers who have the previous Plansifter FORTRESS model, who would like to replace the old wood screens with the new plastic ones.

It’s a huge innovation within the market, and most millers are very surprised and pleased to hear about the product.

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Mark Wild is Sales Manager for Fawema GmbH, an international market leader in the design and manufacture of automated packing equipment for handling ready-made sos paper bags, open mouth industrial sacks and form, fill and seal plastic bags made from reel-stock. Having held this position for 5 years, and after nearly three decades in the industry in full, he spoke to Milling and Grain about Fawema´s latest innovation for the flour milling industry.

It’s very simple, but very effective Mark Edward Wild, Sales Manager, Fawema It’s a very simple but very effective new innovation in our industry.

It consists of a regular paper bag, but now this regular paper bag has a very fine inner layer of dried glue on the top part, which is food approved for use universally throughout the globe. This glue has been approved now by the FDA, a universal standard that covers pretty much every place in the world.

It can be done on a range of bag sizes from half a kilo, typically to five kilogrammes, which is what we call our retail range of bag sizes. This means that now on our packaging machine, we can seal the bag completely.

So we’ll first heat seal the bag to render it hermetically sealed, then we’ll fold the bag, apply another layer of glue and then fold again to make the final brick pack.

The final package looks exactly like the traditional package, which is already on the market, but the difference is this one is totally dust tight, leak proof and tamper proof.

The industry has been looking for this for a long time.

That’s driven mainly by the supermarkets, who are insisting that they don’t want dusty floors or dusty shelves; they want clean floors and clean supermarkets. The key factor in this smart new innovation is that it´s extremely cost-effective from the millers point of view. Fawema can install the new sealing module inside the packing machine either as a new item or as a retrofit and, BINGO... the job´s done!

As always it’s a pleasure to be at the IAOM MEA; Dubai’s a nice place; the exhibition is always a successful event for Fawema. We meet friends, we meet new people, new potential customers. It’s always a good event for us and we shall continue to participate and support the event in the future.

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the interview

Dr Ali El-Sayed Ali Al-Moselhi

Dr Ali El-Sayed Ali Al-Moselhi is the Egyptian Minister of Supply and Internal Trade.

He previously held the position of Egyptian minister of Social Solidarity in the cabinet of Dr Ahmed Nazif and a member of the Parliament, the People’s Assembly, for the constituency Abu Kabeer, Ash Sharqiyah Governorate.

The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Mideast and Africa Chapter held its annual conference and exhibition in Dubai from October 22-25, 2017 and invited Egypt’s Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, His Excellency Dr Ali El-Sayed Ali Moselhi, to participate in the conference’s closing Panel Discussion on ‘Wheat imports – MEA Regional Outlook’.

Dr El-Sayed Ali Moselhi spoke to Milling and Grain about Egypt’s experience of providing subsidized flour, and other foodstuffs, to its growing population.

Egypt has a population of 98 million and provides subsidised food to 80 million people.

He is opposed to food subsidies on an economic basis, but recognises their role in helping to sustain many of his countrymen’s nutrition and health.

Can you outline for our readers Egypt’s wheat demand for the current year?

Concerning the wheat trade in Egypt, we produce about eight million tonnes while our consumption is between 19 - 20 million tonnes.

This means that we need to import between 11-12 million tonnes annually, which makes us the number one importer of wheat in the world.

There is much availability of wheat right across the whole world. Last year left us with high stocks and while production this year is not as high as last year the net residual in carryover is expected to be higher at the end of 2017-18 than it was for 2016/17.

This gives all of us, and Egypt in particular a sense of stability in the market. We have Russia, countries around the Black Sea plus Romania and France with supplies. The tonnages that we acquired earlier this year have given us stability and we may exceed them once we have reasonable prices. So the flow of wheat into Egypt is continuing normally and as everyone knows we are always working to have reserves of about three months.

The competition for suppliers now is about balancing quality and price.

Is there likely to be a significant purchase by the end of the year?

Our purchasing is regular at about one million tonnes per month. Sometimes that goes up and sometimes it comes down. But we have a limited capacity in our ports concerning the number of ships that can arrive at any moment and we have finite grain storage capacities.

Egypt has a subsidised bread policy. With all the experience that it has accumulated over the years, you might have some good advice for other countries that face food shortages and yet don’t want to disrupt their commercial industries such as the milling and baking sectors. Do you think subsidy has been a good policy for the people of Egypt?

No. It is not recommended that you go into subsidies except if you are obliged to make the life of people easier, but to go into subsidy especially for a very basic commodity such as bread it would be my recommendation not to do so.

We have to control it quite closely, to monitor it, to minimise losses and minimise the misuse of the bread flour and bread produced.

You also have to define who really deserves this type of full subsidy because you are giving them something of value for

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next-to-nothing.

Consequently, you will have ranges of need and this means offering subsidised food products at different prices to different entitlement groups at different quantities and so on.

Egypt is not small and because some 80 million Egyptian citizens are entitled to use this subsidy, it means that every day we have to distribute over 250 million loaves of subsidised bread.

The cost is very high so you have to make it economically viable whilst maintaining social and political stability. To succeed you have to have a programme that is very transparent and clear, and manage the development at different social and economic levels to determine who needs what.

In any case, subsidised bread does not decrease the total amount of wheat that we consume. But, not having subsidised bread would relieve the toughness on the government budget, because this program has a very high priority and no one can touch that.

Is Egypt subsidising meat as well as wheat?

Currently we do not subsidise meat, although in the past we had tried to offer subsidized meats but with the increases of prices of meat we started to remove ourselves completely from this activity in March this year.

Today, we ‘buy in bulk’ for sale at commercially acceptable prices.

For example, we have significant contracts with Sudan, Brazil, Argentina and other suppliers, which allows us to sell at above cost.

We are trying to make it available at affordable prices without using subsidies. As a result this is indirectly placing a cap on competitors’ prices without dictating prices and without using subsidies, which in our view is a good thing.

There must be a lot more to subsidising foodstuffs than just finance?

Yes, that’s right. One of the big issues associated with subsidising foodstuffs is the need for a government to provide channels for the distribution of food in order to make these basic food commodities available at a normal and fair price.

Working on these basics, which includes logistics such as storage and processing facilities across the whole supply chain, is the real start of a subsiding system.

We are planning to develop a logistical infrastructure in order to facilitate all these things right from feed production through to mill processing for example.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Laura Clark joins Milling and Grain

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aura Clark has joined the Milling and Grain, Perendale team as a new member of the editorial team.

Laura has experience working as a freelance journalist for Musical Opinion Magazines and various online publications. She completed a work experience placement at BBC Music Magazine after graduating from the University of Birmingham and has had a varied career in music and arts administration.

Laura Clark

Laura is looking forward to embarking on a new and exciting chapter with Milling and Grain Magazine, she commented, “I am excited to learn more about the industry, an interesting and pivotal one for the future of our world and meeting the people who keep the roller mills turning.”

Offering superior products and cutting-edge research

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egan Koppen has joined Delacon as a regional technical manager for poultry in its US team. She will support research and education for phytogenics in the US as well as supporting field trials and research, assisting with sales and training efforts and will also support product development.

Megan Koppen

Ms Koppen has a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Purdue University and master’s degree in poultry science from Texas A&M. She was a field representative for Perdue Farms, and then advanced her career from live production area supervisor to staff nutritionist for Jennie-O Turkey Stores. There Ms Koppen was instrumental in managing husbandry practices, bird health, field and research farm trials, and nutrition programs.

She commented, “I want to offer superior products and cutting-edge research to the poultry industry, and I look forward to doing just that as part of the Delacon team. Plant-based phytogenic feed additives can help poultry producers achieve their sustainability goals, from both an economical and environmental perspective.”

Diamond V welcomes new Director

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el Holzer has joined Diamond V in the new position of Director, Poultry Business Access.

Mr Holzer has worked at Elanco Animal Health as Director Global Market Access, Food Animal, working to enable access and enhance relationships within food processors, retailers, food service and industry associations. Before that, he spent many years in leadership and sales positions for various other meat and food industry companies.

Del Holzer

He attended the University of Central Oklahoma, graduating with a B.A. in graphic advertising design. Kevin Sheehan, Director, Food Safety Business Development commented, “I am delighted that Del has joined the team. In his new role, Del will be responsible for direct sales to broiler companies as well as market access to retail and food service companies.”

General Manager, USA

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dward Seed is the General Manager, USA, for Anpario, it was announced.

He holds a MS in Animal Nutrition and a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management.

He spent multiple years in South Africa with Elanco in a Technical Service and Product Development role, before he went on to be Roche’s Animal Nutrition Manager for Southern Africa. He continued his international career by undertaking Regional Leadership positions in Europe and North America with Roche and as Vice President of International Sales and Swine Business Unit for Alpharma.

Edward Seed

Mr Seed had an integral role in the establishment of Pharmgate LLC. He was later appointed as General Manager of Pharmgate Animal Health in 2011, where he oversaw the successful launches of a range of antibiotics and vaccines.

New sales manager for grain milling

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artin Ellegast is the new manager for sales and marketing for the entire business area “Grain Milling” for Bühler. He holds an engineering degree in mechanical engineering/ process engineering and an Executive MBA.

Whilst at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance, he wrote a thesis on Bühler and worked as an intern there. He has been with the company permanently since 2005.

Martin Ellegast

Starting in project management in Grain Milling, in 2015 he took over the management of the business unit Bakery and Ingredient Handling.

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